The Fake County synthetic panel dataset contains approximately 40,000 records comprising four years of data with roughly 10,000 teachers per year. The dataset includes information about teacher demographics, teaching assignments, salary, credentials, experience, evaluation scores, and hiring and retention status. It also includes information about school types and average student characteristics for each school. There are no real teachers in the dataset, but it is based on real data. Fake County was developed as an offshoot of the Strategic Data Project's work on human capital diagnostics for school districts and state education departments, and can be used for teaching or collaboration. The data was synthesized using the R synthpop package.
Format
A data frame with 39,339 rows and 38 variables:
- tid
double: Teacher ID
- fake_data
double: Record Is Simulated
- school_year
double: School Year
- school_code
double: School Code
- school_name
character: School Name
- t_male
double: Teacher Is Male
- t_race_ethnicity
double: Teacher Race/Ethnicity
- t_job_area
double: Teacher Assignment Type
- t_salary
double: Monthly Salary
- t_nbpts
double: Teacher Has National Board Certification
- t_tenured
double: Teacher Is Tenured
- t_experience
double: Years of Teaching Experience
- t_fte
double: Teacher's FTE Status
- t_highest_degree
double: Teacher's Highest Degree
- t_licensed_stem
double: Teacher Is Licensed In STEM Field
- t_eval_obs
double: Evaluation Summary Observation Score
- t_eval_growth
double: Evaluation Summary Student Growth Score
- t_stay
double: Teacher in Same School in Following Year
- t_transfer
double: Teacher in Different School in Following Year
- t_leave
double: Teacher Not Teaching in Fake County Schools in Following Year
- t_novice
double: Teacher Is Novice First-Year Teacher
- t_new_hire
double: Teacher Did Not Teach in Fake County in Prior Year
- sch_elem
double: School Is Elementary School
- sch_middle
double: School Is Middle School
- sch_high
double: School Is High School
- sch_alternative
double: School Is Alternative School
- sch_regular
double: School Is Regular School
- sch_title_1
double: School Is Title 1 School
- sch_magnet
double: School Is Magnet School
- sch_vocational
double: School is Vocational School
- sch_region
double: School Region Code
- sch_calendar_type
double: School Calendar Type
- sch_iep_pct
double: School Special Education Student Share in 2012-15
- sch_minority_pct
double: School Minority Student Share in 2012-15
- sch_frpl_pct
double: School Free and Reduced Price Lunch Student Share in 2012-15
- sch_ela_avg
double: School ELA Test Score Average in 2012-15 (in standard deviations)
- sch_math_avg
double: School Math Test Score Average in 2012-15 (in standard deviations)
- sch_enroll_2015
double: School Enrollment in 2015
Source
https://github.com/OpenSDP/fake-county, posted under a Creative Commons license.