table 1

Annual Means and Standard Deviations

1979198019811982198319841985
TSP70.0269.3268.9166.5460.5561.2657.85
(12.10)(15.21)(10.85)(9.28)(8.27)(8.81)(8.89)
Average yearly temperature66.4468.968.6768.566.4768.267.89
(2.30)(2.28)(2.44)(2.46)(2.38)(2.58)(2.64)
Days with rain139.72123.48139.95146.92129.33145.18141.02
(29.21)(25.78)(27.68)(25.47)(23.11)(28.88)(26.48)
Average yearly humidity9.859.9210.6310.39.849.7010.35
(1.68)(1.87)(1.57)(1.73)(1.61)(1.56)(1.64)
Income2.812.772.872.862.873.003.05
(0.50)(0.51)(0.52)(0.51)(0.47)(0.51)(0.53)
Population density8.298.548.789.089.389.589.64
(5.77)(5.96)(6.14)(6.43)(6.61)(6.66)(6.72)
Male48.2348.2548.4448.4148.0548.1847.64
(49.97)(49.97)(49.98)(49.98)(49.96)(49.97)(49.95)
Black14.9515.1814.8214.9915.1014.9014.59
(35.66)(35.88)(35.53)(35.70)(35.81)(35.61)(35.30)
Hispanic25.3926.4126.9227.2327.5028.3129.03
(43.52)(44.09)(44.35)(44.52)(44.65)(45.05)(45.39)
Special education3.414.034.224.443.853.242.97
(18.16)(19.66)(20.10)(20.59)(19.24)(17.72)(16.99)
Free/reduced lunch19.5921.4121.9522.8223.3323.5824.23
(39.69)(41.02)(41.39)(41.97)(42.29)(42.45)(42.85)
Pupil/teacher ratio16.7716.6216.5016.2916.0415.9015.79
(2.01)(2.09)(2.01)(2.05)(2.09)(2.05)(1.95)
TLI math73.3675.0477.2579.2781.1182.3583.34
(8.21)(7.75)(7.25)(6.45)(5.60)(5.05)(4.33)
Math passage rate65.9771.3577.4783.0788.0591.3393.64
(24.59)(23.23)(21.48)(18.94)(16.41)(14.15)(11.02)
Manufacturing instrument18.7318.5818.7316.8715.3415.0914.56
(7.82)(7.94)(7.70)(6.26)(5.64)(5.63)(5.59)
Total students102,442109,632110,390114,111110,455105,846104,631

Notes: Standard deviations shown in parenthesis. Years shown are year of birth, with test-taking years ranging from 1994 to 2002. Data are for all students with nonmissing covariates and calculated age at test taking between 15 and 18 years of age. Population density is persons per square mile over 100. Data are described in detail in Section III.