guImmun {lme4} | R Documentation |
Immunization in Guatemala
Description
Immunizations received by children in Guatemala.
Usage
data(guImmun)
Format
A data frame with 2159 observations on the following 13 variables.
- kid
- a factor identifying the child
- mom
- a factor identifying the family.
- comm
- a factor identifying the community.
- immun
- a factor indicating if the child received a
complete set of immunizations. All children in this data frame
received at least one immunization.
- kid2p
- a factor indicating if the child was 2 years or older
at the time of the survey.
- mom25p
- a factor indicating if the mother was 25 years or older.
- ord
- an factor indicating the child's birth's order within the
family. Levels are
01
- first child, 23
- second or
third child, 46
- fourth to sixth child, 7p
-
seventh or later child.
- ethn
- a factor indicating the mother's ethnicity. Levels are
L
- Ladino, N
- indigenous not speaking Spanish, and
S
- indigenous speaking Spanish.
- momEd
- a factor describing the mother's level of eduation.
Levels are
N
- not finished primary, P
- finished
primary, S
- finished secondary
- husEd
- a factor describing the husband's level of education.
Levels are the same as for
momEd
plus U
- unknown.
- momWork
- a factor indicating if the mother had ever
worked outside the home.
- rural
- a factor indicating if the family's location is
considered rural or urban.
- pcInd81
- the percentage of indigenous population in the
community at the 1981 census.
Source
These data are available at
http://data.princeton.edu/multilevel/guImmun.dat. Multiple
indicator columns in the original data table have been collapsed to
factors for this data frame.
References
Rodriguez, Germán and Goldman, Noreen (1995), "Improved estimation
procedures for multilevel models with binary response: a case-study",
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 164,
339-355.
Examples
data(guImmun)
summary(guImmun)
[Package
lme4 version 0.6-9
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