Source: From Deborah Lynn Guber (1999) “Getting What You Pay For: The Debate Over Equity in Public School Expenditures” Journal of Statistics Education 7(2) available from http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.guber.cfm
Variables
State Name of state (in quotation marks)
expend - Expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and sec- ondary schools, 1994-95 (in thousands of dollars)
ratio - Average pupil/teacher ratio in public elementary and secondary schools, Fall 1994
salary Estimated average annual salary of teachers in public elementary and secondary schools, 1994-95 (in thousands of dollars)
frac — Percentage of all eligible students taking the SAT, 1994-95
verbal - Average verbal SAT score, 1994-95
math - Average math SAT score, 1994-95
sat ― Average total score on the SAT, 1994-95