Datasets

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This data library is designed for purposes of teaching and training in the application of multilevel models. Any publication related to using datasets from the library should acknowledge the Centre for Multilevel Modelling and the original source where specified.

Each dataset has three files associated with it which have been compressed into one zipped file. There is a text file describing the data, an ASCII file with the raw data and a worksheet file.

Help

The data contained in the zip files below are held in .dat (basic text file), .ws, and .asc formats

.ws is an MLwiN worksheet. If you have MLwiN you can open this file.
Stata, SPSS or Minitab users can use MLwiN to save the file in any of these formats
.asc is fixed width ASCII text. The data is held in the .DAT file and is described in the .ASC file. To read this version into Stata you will need to use the infix command (for further details go to Stata's help for infix) while referring to the .ASC file. An example command for reading the asian data set would be:
infix ChildID 1-4 Age 5-7 Weight 8-12 BirthWeight 13-16 Gender 17 using asian.dat

Data files

Growth data (zip, 0.1 mb) Weight measurements of 568 Asian children in a British community on up to five occasions
Employment opportunities (zip, 0.1 mb) Youth unemployment among school leavers in Scotland
School effectiveness (zip, 0.1 mb) Examination data for school leavers in Inner London with intake achievement measures
Junior school study (zip, 0.1 mb) Longitudinal data on performance for pupils in 50 Inner London schools
Height growth data (zip, 0.1 mb) Height measurements on 26 boys on 9 occasions
Jaw bone measurements (zip, 0.1 mb) Jaw bone measurements on 20 boys on 4 occasions
Exam scores (zip, 0.1 mb) Public examination scores from 1900 students in 73 schools
Attitudes to abortion (zip, 0.1 mb) Attitudes to abortion from 264 respondents over 4 years in 54 areas
Item response data (zip, 0.1 mb) Algebra and geometry multiple choice exam data

Dataset for ordinal multilevel model

The multilevel ordinal models for examination grades paper is based on the dataset given below.

Multilevel ordinal models for examination grades paper (PDF, 0.8 mb)
Multilevel ordinal models for examination grades database (zip, 0.9 mb)

Note: some of the documents on this page are in PDF format. In order to view a PDF you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader

There is a variety of software you can use to un-zip files, eg WinZip or CAM unZip.