AAUP {mffSM}R Documentation

AAUP faculty salary data

Description

Data are from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) annual faculty salary survey of American colleges and universities. They include average salary and overall compensation, broken down by full, associate, and assistant professor ranks. The dataset is used for the 1995 Data Analysis Exposition, sponsored by the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association.

Data are from 1161 colleges obtained (mostly) by a census method.

Usage

data(AAUP)

Format

A data.frame with 1161 rows and the following variables.

FICE

federal ID number of the institution (integer).

name

college name (character).

state

state (two letters of the postal code) of the institution (factor with 52 levels).

type

type of the institution (factor with three levels: I, IIA, IIB). Roughly, institutions of type I provide also the PhD degree, institutions of type IIA provide at most the Master of Science degree, institutions of type IIB provide only the Bachelor degree.

salary.prof

average yearly salary (in USD 100's) of full professor.

salary.assoc

average yearly salary (in USD 100's) of associate professor.

salary.assist

average yearly salary (in USD 100's) of assistant professor.

salary

average yearly salary (in USD 100's) of all ranks of faculty members.

compens.prof

average yearly compensation (in USD 100's) of full professor.

compens.assoc

average yearly compensation (in USD 100's) of associate professor.

compens.assist

average yearly compensation (in USD 100's) of assistant professor.

compens

average yearly compensation (in USD 100's) of all ranks of faculty members.

n.prof

number of full professors.

n.assoc

number of associate professors.

n.assist

number of assistant professors.

n.instruct

number of instructors.

n.faculty

number of faculty members of all ranks.

Source

Journal of Statistics Education: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/aaup.txt

Examples

data(AAUP)
summary(AAUP)

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