Athletic Participation, Race, and Graduation

Description

Six-year graduation data for 214,555 students in 2004

Format

A data frame with 214555 observations on the following 3 variables.

Student

Athlete or NonAthlete

Race

Black or White

Grad

1=graduated within 6 years, otherwise 0

Details

Six-year graduation data from 2004 for male non-athletes and for male athletes, where "Athlete"" means football or basketball player. These data show Simpson's Paradox.

Source

Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross, collected the summary statistics.

Data are derived from the summary tables in:

Matheson, V., "Research Note: Athletic Graduation Rates and Simpson's Paradox," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26:4 (August 2007), 516-520.