Subjects were students in grades 4-6 from three school districts in Michigan. Students were selected from urban, suburban, and rural school districts with approximately 1/3 of their sample coming from each district. Students indicated whether good grades, athletic ability, or popularity was most important to them. They also ranked four factors: grades, sports, looks, and money, in order of their importance for popularity. The questionnaire also asked for gender, grade level, and other demographic information.
Format
A data frame with 478 observations on the following 11 variables.
- gender
a factor with levels
boygirl- grade
grade in school
- age
student age
- race
a factor with levels
otherWhite- urban.rural
a factor with levels
RuralSuburbanUrban- school
a factor with levels
Brentwood ElementaryBrentwood MiddleBrown MiddleElmMainPortageRidgeSandWestdale Middle- goals
a factor with levels
GradesPopularSports- grades
rank of `make good grades' (1 = most important for popularity; 4 = least important)
- sports
rank of `beging good at sports' (1 = most important for popularity; 4 = least important)
- looks
rank of `beging handsome or pretty' (1 = most important for popularity; 4 = least important)
- money
rank of `having lots of money' (1 = most important for popularity; 4 = least important)
Source
These data are available at DASL, the data and story library (https://dasl.datadescription.com/).
References
Chase, M. A., and Dummer, G. M. (1992), "The Role of Sports as a Social Determinant for Children," Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 63, 418-424.
Examples
data(Kids)
#> Warning: data set ‘Kids’ not found
tally(goals ~ urban.rural, data = Kids)
#> urban.rural
#> goals Rural Suburban Urban
#> Grades 57 87 103
#> Popular 50 42 49
#> Sports 42 22 26
chisq.test(tally(~ goals + urban.rural, data = Kids))
#>
#> Pearson's Chi-squared test
#>
#> data: tally(~goals + urban.rural, data = Kids)
#> X-squared = 18.828, df = 4, p-value = 0.0008497
#>