Dropout Dataset
data_dropout.RdThis dataset is extracted from an administrative database provided by a non-specified university and tracks students enrolled in 2012 over three academic years (or 6 semesters). We are interested in understanding what factors lead to students dropping out. Dropout students with a time-instant in the first semester have been removed, for internal reasons (the university cannot take preventive action to reduce or avoid their withdrawal). The students are followed for at most 3 academic years or, equivalently, 6 semesters (follow-up periods), from the first day of lecture up to the time-instant of withdrawal (i.e. survival event) or the end of the academic year.
Format
A data frame with 4448 rows and 4 columns:
- Gender
Categorical covariate (Male or Female).
- CFUP
Standardized numerical covariate indicating the number of credits \ passed by the students by the end of the first semester.
- time_to_event
Time (in semesters) at which a student decides to leave the university. \ A value greater than 6.0 indicates the student did not drop out during the follow-up (e.g. 6.1 semesters)
- group
Categorical variable indicating the student's course of study, with 16 different levels from CosA, CosB, ... , CosP.