Description
Data About Historic Pell Grant Distribution in the US.
Description
Historic Pell grant data as provided by the US Department of Education. This package contains data about how much pell grant was awarded by which institution in which year. This data comes from the US Department of Education. Raw data can be downloaded from here: <https://www2.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/data/pell-institution.html>.
README.md
pell 
This package contains one dataset that contains total Pell grant distributed by different colleges/universities over the years across the entire United States of America.
Installation
You can install the released version of pell from CRAN with:
# Install the released version from CRAN
install.packages("devtools")
You can install the development version of pell from GitHub with:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Curious-Joe/pell")
About the data
Data is collected and distributed by the US Department of Education. The raw data provided in their website are non-standardized, and need some extensive data cleaning to make them useful as a whole.
In this package, the raw data files were sourced from their website, cleaned, standardized, and joined together into one dataset:
pell: For each year since 1999 to 2017 how much total money was disbursed as Pell grant by each institution across the USA.
Example
Load the dataset:
library(pell)
data(pell)
Explore first 5 rows:
head(pell)
#> STATE AWARD RECIPIENT NAME SESSION YEAR
#> 1 AK 197232.9 109 Alaska Pacific University 1999-00 1999
#> 2 AK 133148.0 69 Alaska Vocational Technical Center 1999-00 1999
#> 3 AK 107287.0 72 Sheldon Jackson College 1999-00 1999
#> 4 AK 3425148.8 1920 University of Alaska - Anchorage 1999-00 1999
#> 5 AK 2441864.0 1256 University of Alaska at Fairbanks 1999-00 1999
#> 6 AK 353170.0 221 University of Alaska at Southeast 1999-00 1999
References
Data originally published in:
- US Department of Education Website: https://www2.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/data/pell-institution.html.