Student Alcohol Consumption

The data were obtained in a survey of students math and portuguese language courses in secondary school. It contains a lot of interesting social, gender and study information about students. You can use it for some EDA or try to predict students final grade.

Attributes for both student-mat.csv (Math course) and student-por.csv (Portuguese language course) datasets:

1. school - student's school (binary: 'GP' - Gabriel Pereira or 'MS' - Mousinho da Silveira)
2. sex - student's sex (binary: 'F' - female or 'M' - male)
3. age - student's age (numeric: from 15 to 22)
4. address - student's home address type (binary: 'U' - urban or 'R' - rural)
5. famsize - family size (binary: 'LE3' - less or equal to 3 or 'GT3' - greater than 3)
6. Pstatus - parent's cohabitation status (binary: 'T' - living together or 'A' - apart)
7. Medu - mother's education (numeric: 0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 – 5th to 9th grade, 3 – secondary education or 4 – higher education)
8. Fedu - father's education (numeric: 0 - none, 1 - primary education (4th grade), 2 – 5th to 9th grade, 3 – secondary education or 4 – higher education)
9. Mjob - mother's job (nominal: 'teacher', 'health' care related, civil 'services' (e.g. administrative or police), 'at_home' or 'other')
10. Fjob - father's job (nominal: 'teacher', 'health' care related, civil 'services' (e.g. administrative or police), 'at_home' or 'other')
11. reason - reason to choose this school (nominal: close to 'home', school 'reputation', 'course' preference or 'other')
12. guardian - student's guardian (nominal: 'mother', 'father' or 'other')
13. traveltime - home to school travel time (numeric: 1 - <15 min., 2 - 15 to 30 min., 3 - 30 min. to 1 hour, or 4 - >1 hour)
14. studytime - weekly study time (numeric: 1 - <2 hours, 2 - 2 to 5 hours, 3 - 5 to 10 hours, or 4 - >10 hours)
15. failures - number of past class failures (numeric: n if 1<=n<3, else 4)
16. schoolsup - extra educational support (binary: yes or no)
17. famsup - family educational support (binary: yes or no)
18. paid - extra paid classes within the course subject (Math or Portuguese) (binary: yes or no)
19. activities - extra-curricular activities (binary: yes or no)
20. nursery - attended nursery school (binary: yes or no)
21. higher - wants to take higher education (binary: yes or no)
22. internet - Internet access at home (binary: yes or no)
23. romantic - with a romantic relationship (binary: yes or no)
24. famrel - quality of family relationships (numeric: from 1 - very bad to 5 - excellent)
25. freetime - free time after school (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
26. goout - going out with friends (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
27. Dalc - workday alcohol consumption (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
28. Walc - weekend alcohol consumption (numeric: from 1 - very low to 5 - very high)
29. health - current health status (numeric: from 1 - very bad to 5 - very good)
30. absences - number of school absences (numeric: from 0 to 93)

These grades are related with the course subject, Math or Portuguese:

31. G1 - first period grade (numeric: from 0 to 20)
32. G2 - second period grade (numeric: from 0 to 20)
33. G3 - final grade (numeric: from 0 to 20, output target)

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.

P. Cortez and A. Silva. Using Data Mining to Predict Secondary School Student Performance. In A. Brito and J. Teixeira Eds., Proceedings of 5th FUture BUsiness TEChnology Conference (FUBUTEC 2008) pp. 5-12, Porto, Portugal, April, 2008, EUROSIS, ISBN 978-9077381-39-7.

Fabio Pagnotta, Hossain Mohammad Amran.
Email:fabio.pagnotta@studenti.unicam.it, mohammadamra.hossain '@' studenti.unicam.it
University Of Camerino

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/STUDENT+ALCOHOL+CONSUMPTION