-
school - student's school (binary: 'GP' - Gabriel Pereira or 'MS' - Mousinho da Silveira)
-
sex - student's sex (binary: 'F' - female or 'M' - male)
-
age - student's age (numeric: from 15 to 22)
-
address - student's home address type (binary: 'U' - urban or 'R' - rural)
-
famsize - family size (binary: 'LE3' - less or equal to 3 or 'GT3' - greater than 3)
-
Pstatus - parent's cohabitation status (binary: 'T' - living together or 'A' - apart)
-
Medu - mother's education (numeric: 0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 – 5th to 9th grade, 3 – secondary education or 4 – higher education)
-
Fedu - father's education (numeric: 0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 – 5th to 9th grade, 3 – secondary education or 4 – higher education)
-
Mjob - mother's job (nominal: 'teacher', 'health' care related, civil 'services' (e.g. administrative or police), 'at_home' or 'other')
-
Fjob - father's job (nominal: 'teacher', 'health' care related, civil 'services' (e.g. administrative or police), 'at_home' or 'other')
-
reason - reason to choose this school (nominal: close to 'home', school 'reputation', 'course' preference or 'other')
-
guardian - student's guardian (nominal: 'mother', 'father' or 'other')
-
traveltime - home to school travel time (numeric: 1 - 1 hour)
-
studytime - weekly study time (numeric: 1 - 10 hours)
-
failures - number of past class failures (numeric: n if 1<=n<3, else 4)
-
schoolsup - extra educational support (binary: yes or no)
-
famsup - family educational support (binary: yes or no)
-
paid - extra paid classes within the course subject (Math or Portuguese) (binary: yes or no)
-
activities - extra-curricular activities (binary: yes or no)
-
nursery - attended nursery school (binary: yes or no)
-
higher - wants to take higher education (binary: yes or no)
-
internet - Internet access at home (binary: yes or no)
-
romantic - with a romantic relationship (binary: yes or no)
-
famrel - quality of family relationships (numeric: from 1 - very bad to 5 - excellent)
-
freetime - free time after school (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
-
goout - going out with friends (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
-
Dalc - workday alcohol consumption (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
-
Walc - weekend alcohol consumption (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
-
health - current health status (numeric: from 1 - very bad to 5 - very good)
-
absences - number of school absences (numeric: from 0 to 93)
Additional note: there are several (382) students that belong to both datasets .
These students can be identified by searching for identical attributes
that characterize each student, as shown in the annexed R file.