guPrenat {lme4} | R Documentation |
Prenatal care in Guatemala
Description
Data on the prenatal care received by mothers in Guatemala.
Usage
data(guPrenat)
Format
A data frame with 2449 observations on the following 15 variables.
- kid
- a factor identifying the birth
- mom
- a factor identifying the mother or family
- cluster
- a factor identifying the community
- prenat
- a factor indicating if traditional or modern prenatal
care was provided for the birth.
- childAge
- an ordered factor of the child's age at the time of
the survey.
- motherAge
- a factor indicating if the mother was older or
younger. The cut-off age is 25 years.
- birthOrd
- an ordered factor for the birth's order within the family.
- indig
- a factor indicating if the mother is Ladino, or
indigenous not speaking Spanish, or indigenous speaking Spanish.
- momEd
- a factor describing the mother's level of eduation.
- husEd
- a factor describing the husband's level of education.
- husEmpl
- a factor describing the husband's employment status.
- toilet
- a factor indicating if there is a modern toilet in the
house.
- TV
- a factor indicating if there is a TV in the house and, if
so, the frequency with which it is used.
- pcInd81
- the percentage of indigenous population in the
community at the 1981 census.
- ssDist
- distance from the community to the nearest clinic.
Source
These data are available at
http://data.princeton.edu/multilevel/guPrenat.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(guPrenat)
summary(guPrenat)