Subject area	Social Sciences
More specific subject area	Quantitative Psychology
Type of data	Table and text file
How data was acquired	Field Survey
Data format	Raw, partial analyzed (Descriptive statistics)
Experimental factors	Simple random sampling of some selected primary and secondary schools in three local Government Areas in Ogun State, Nigeria. Non response observations have been removed.
Experimental features	Sample selection of the responses of pupils and students from structured Questionnaires designed to measure their level of externalizing behavior
Data source location	Covenant University Mathematics Laboratory, Ota, Nigeria
Data accessibility	All the data are in this data article