Overviews of two analyses are available giving examples of the potential of multilevel modelling for social data.

The first example shows some findings from a multilevel analysis of educational attainment data from pupils attending a secondary school in London. The response variable is attainment in exams taken by pupils at age 16. There are data on 4000 pupils in 65 schools. The analysis is particularly concerned with the effect of schools. Are some schools more "effective" than others? More

The second example is an exploration of variations in mortality rates in England and Wales. The data comprise repeated measures of the standardised mortality ratio (SMR) for 403 county districts which are nested in 54 counties over the period 1979 to 1991. The particular concerns are in how mortality changed over that time period and the nature and extent of regional variations. More

The full tutorials and datasets may also be downloaded; these are designed to take you through the analyses on which the above overviews are based.

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