The spreadsheet contains school diversity data from [latex]28[/latex] school districts in Nebraska. The data make up a subset of the larger data set about school diversity.
The [latex]11[/latex] variables in the data set are defined as:
State: NE
Location Type: Type of school district location: “town-distant,” “city-small,” “town-fringe,” “suburban-large,” or “city-large”
School Year
AIAN: American Indian and Alaska Native proportion of student population
Asian: Asian proportion of student population
Black: Black proportion of student population
Hispanic: Hispanic proportion of student population
White: White proportion of student population
Multi: Multi-ethnic proportion of student population
Total: Total student body count
Diverse: Diversity rating (diverse, undiverse, or extremely undiverse)
Proportion is a ratio between the number of times an event of interest occurred divided by the total.
Proportion in statistics is mostly known as the relative frequency of an event.
Proportion can be written in fractions, decimals, or percentages.