Nursery

Donated on 5/31/1997

Nursery Database was derived from a hierarchical decision model originally developed to rank applications for nursery schools.

Dataset Characteristics

Multivariate

Subject Area

Social Science

Associated Tasks

Classification

Feature Type

Categorical

# Instances

12960

# Features

8

Dataset Information

Additional Information

Nursery Database was derived from a hierarchical decision model originally developed to rank applications for nursery schools. It was used during several years in 1980's when there was excessive enrollment to these schools in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the rejected applications frequently needed an objective explanation. The final decision depended on three subproblems: occupation of parents and child's nursery, family structure and financial standing, and social and health picture of the family. The model was developed within expert system shell for decision making DEX (M. Bohanec, V. Rajkovic: Expert system for decision making. Sistemica 1(1), pp. 145-157, 1990.). The hierarchical model ranks nursery-school applications according to the following concept structure: NURSERY Evaluation of applications for nursery schools . EMPLOY Employment of parents and child's nursery . . parents Parents' occupation . . has_nurs Child's nursery . STRUCT_FINAN Family structure and financial standings . . STRUCTURE Family structure . . . form Form of the family . . . children Number of children . . housing Housing conditions . . finance Financial standing of the family . SOC_HEALTH Social and health picture of the family . . social Social conditions . . health Health conditions Input attributes are printed in lowercase. Besides the target concept (NURSERY) the model includes four intermediate concepts: EMPLOY, STRUCT_FINAN, STRUCTURE, SOC_HEALTH. Every concept is in the original model related to its lower level descendants by a set of examples (for these examples sets see http://www-ai.ijs.si/BlazZupan/nursery.html). The Nursery Database contains examples with the structural information removed, i.e., directly relates NURSERY to the eight input attributes: parents, has_nurs, form, children, housing, finance, social, health. Because of known underlying concept structure, this database may be particularly useful for testing constructive induction and structure discovery methods.

Has Missing Values?

No

Introductory Paper

An application for admission in public school systems

By M. Olave, V. Rajkovic, M. Bohanec. 1989

Published in Expert Systems in Public Administration

Variables Table

Variable NameRoleTypeDescriptionUnitsMissing Values
parentsFeatureCategoricalusual, pretentious, great_pretno
has_nursFeatureCategoricalproper, less_proper, improper, critical, very_critno
formFeatureCategoricalcomplete, completed, incomplete, fosterno
childrenFeatureCategorical1, 2, 3, moreno
housingFeatureCategoricalconvenient, less_conv, criticalno
financeFeatureCategoricalconvenient, inconvno
socialFeatureCategoricalnon-prob, slightly_prob, problematicno
healthFeatureCategoricalrecommended, priority, not_recomno
classTargetCategoricalrecommended, priority, not_recomno

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Additional Variable Information

parents: usual, pretentious, great_pret has_nurs: proper, less_proper, improper, critical, very_crit form: complete, completed, incomplete, foster children: 1, 2, 3, more housing: convenient, less_conv, critical finance: convenient, inconv social: non-prob, slightly_prob, problematic health: recommended, priority, not_recom

Baseline Model Performance

Dataset Files

FileSize
nursery.data1 MB
nursery.names4 KB
nursery.c45-names501 Bytes

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