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Data from Graham (1997) measuring the relation between mathematics course-taking and gender identity in a sample of 3790 tenth grade high school students. Students were followed for up to 5 terms (eleventh grade, twelfth grade, and the first three semesters of college) or until they stopped enrolling in mathematics courses.

Usage

math_dropout

Format

A person-period data frame with 9558 rows and 5 columns:

id

Participant ID.

term

Academic term each record corresponds to.

event

Binary indicator for whether the student stopped enrolling in mathematics courses at a given term.

censor

Censoring status.

woman

Binary indicators for whether the student identified as a woman.

Source

Graham, S. E. (1997). The exodus from mathematics: When and why? Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Harvard University, Graduate School of Education.