📝 Final-year thesis: social media and academic performance
The classic final-year project: 160 (fictional) university students answered a questionnaire with a 5-item social-media-addiction scale (sm1–sm5), a 4-item study-engagement scale (st1–st4), daily social-media hours and their CGPA. 160 cases, 14 variables. Field: social science · level: thesis.
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What does each variable mean? (codebook)
| Variable | Label | Measure | Value labels | Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
id | Respondent ID | scale | 1–160, mean 80.50 | |
gender | Gender | nominal | 1 = Male, 2 = Female | 2 categories |
year | Year of study | ordinal | 1 = Year 1, 2 = Year 2, 3 = Year 3, 4 = Year 4 | 4 categories |
sm_hours | Daily social-media hours | scale | 0.5–7.8, mean 3.57 | |
sm1 | Social media item 1 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
sm2 | Social media item 2 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
sm3 | Social media item 3 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
sm4 | Social media item 4 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
sm5 | Social media item 5 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
st1 | Study engagement item 1 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
st2 | Study engagement item 2 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
st3 | Study engagement item 3 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
st4 | Study engagement item 4 | ordinal | 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = Strongly agree | 5 categories |
cgpa | CGPA | scale | 2.05–4, mean 3.10 |
Which analyses suit this dataset?
- Student workflow — see the case study
- Full case study
Licence
Synthetic data produced by a seeded random process for teaching (no real people or organisations). Released under CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) by Jupiter2u — free to use, share and adapt.