Proxies are the degree-granting engineering programs we estimate that First-Year Engineering (FYE) students would have declared had they not been required to enroll in FYE. Keyed by student ID. Proxies are provided for all students in the midfielddata practice data who enroll in FYE in their first term.
Format
data.table with 4623 rows and 2 columns keyed by student ID:
mcidCharacter, de-identified student ID. Key column.
proxyCharacter, 6-digit CIP code of the estimated proxy program.
Details
The proxy variable contains 6-digit CIP codes of degree-granting engineering programs, e.g., Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc., that are substituted for the FYE CIP code when an analysis requires degree-granting starting programs. The most common application is a graduation rate calculation.
The estimation is based on students' first post-FYE programs and a multiple imputation suitable for categorical variables using the mice package. The predictor variables are institution, race, and sex. The estimated variable is the 6-digit CIP code of a degree-granting engineering program at their institution.
fye_proxy holds only for the practice data in midfielddata—these values
cannot be commingled with the MIDFIELD research database.
See also
Other cip-data:
cip