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Multivariate multilevel analyses of examination results by M. Yang et al, Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, Series A, Statistics in Society, Volume 165 (2002), Part 1, pages 137 - 153.

The analyses in the paper were based on A/AS level results in different mathematics papers of 52,587 individuals from 2,592 institutions in England in 1997. The data file 'RSS-A633.TXT' contains 30 fields with one blank space between two fields. The name and code of each field are listed as follows:

FieldName
Level defined
Coding
Gender Individual Male=0, Female=1
GCSE-TOT-Score Individual Min=0, Max=103
GCSE-Num-taken Individual Min=2, Max=13
GCSE-MATH-Score Individual Min=0, Max=8
GCSE-MATH-NUM Individual Min=1, Max=4
Exam Board Individual Associated Exam Board=1
    Cambridge Board=2
    London Board=3
    Oxford Board=5
    Joint Matriculation=6
    Oxford & Cambridge=7
Mean-GCSEtot Institution Min=2.19, Max=7.41
Mean-GCSEMaths Institution Min=0.5, Max=7.36
Age-Month Individual Min=216, max=227
Institution-type Institution LEA Maintained Comprehensive=1
   

LEA Maintained Selective=2
LEA Maintained Modern=3
Grammar Comprehensive=4
Grammar Selective=5
Grammar Modern=6
Independent Selective=7
Independent Non-selective=8
Six-Form College=9
FE College=10
Others=11
Mathscore Individual Min=0, Max=10 (outcome variable)
A-main-maths Within individual Alevel Main Maths=1, others=0
A-pure-maths Within individual Alevel Pure Maths=1, others=0
A-Applied-maths Within individual Alevel Applied maths=1, others=0
A-Further-maths Within individual Alevel Further maths=1, others=0
AS-main Within individual ASlevel main maths=1, others=0
AS-pure Within individual ASlevel Pure maths=1, others=0
AS-Applied Within individual ASlevel Applied maths=1, others=0
AS-Further Within individual ASlevel Further maths=1, others=0
A-combination-1 Individual A(M)+A(F)+more=1, others=0
A-combination-3 Individual A(M)+AS(F)+more=1, others=0
A-combination-2 Individual A(M)+AS(others but F)=1, others=0
A-combination-4 Individual A(M)+A(others but F)=1, others=0
A-combination-5 Individual A(P)+A(A)+more=1, others=0
AS-combination-6 Individual AS(M)+more than 1A=1, others=0
AS-combination-7 Individual AS(A)+more than 1A=1, others=0
School ID School Ranged from 1 to 2592
Individual ID Individual Ranged from 1 to 245 (nested within school)
subject level Within individual Alevel=1, ASlevel=2
MathCode Within individual Main maths=1
    Pure maths=3
    Applied maths=5
    Further maths=13

All models in the paper were fitted in using the program MLwiN. Details of the program can be found at the web site (http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/).
The full paper can also be found and down-loaded from the page (http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/team/project.html).

For technical questions in fitting models appeared in the paper, contact

Min Yang
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
UK

E-mail: m.yang@ioe.ac.uk

tel: 44(0)207 612 6682

Dataset (A633-data.zip 556kb)

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