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  5. Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:52:00 CST
  6. Sender:       "Educational Research List (TCSVM)" <ERL-L@TCSVM.BITNET>
  7. From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
  8. Subject:      OERI: Directory of Data Files (450 lines)
  9. Lines: 449
  10.  
  11. The following is provided by The Office of Educational Research
  12. and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
  13. welcome to distribute.
  14.  
  15.  
  16.                                1992 Supplement
  17.  
  18.                                     to the
  19.  
  20.                               1991 OERI Directory
  21.  
  22.                                       of
  23.  
  24.                               Computer Data Files
  25.  
  26.  
  27.                              (as of October 16, 1992)
  28.  
  29.  
  30.                            New Available Data Files
  31.  
  32. Updates
  33.  
  34. Elementary and Secondary Education
  35.  
  36.  
  37.  1.  Survey Area:        Public School Districts
  38.  
  39.      Years Available:    1990-91
  40.  
  41.      Description:        Please see Elementary and
  42.                          Secondary Education of the previous
  43.                          edition of the Directory.  Most
  44.                          variables on this file are also
  45.                          available on diskettes.  Please
  46.                          see pricing.
  47.  
  48.  
  49.  2.  Survey Area:        Public School Universe
  50.  
  51.      Years Available:    1990-91
  52.  
  53.      Description:        Please see Elementary and
  54.                          Secondary Education of the previous
  55.                          edition of the Directory.  Most
  56.                          variables on this file are also
  57.                          available on diskettes.  Please
  58.                          see  pricing.
  59.  
  60.  
  61.  3.  Survey Area:        State Summary of School
  62.                          District Finance
  63.  
  64.      Years Available:    1989
  65.                          1990
  66.  
  67.      Description:        Please see Elementary and
  68.                          Secondary Education of the previous
  69.                          edition of the Directory.  Fiscal
  70.                          years 1989 and 1990 are on the
  71.                          same file.  These two years are
  72.                          also available on a diskette for
  73.                          $75.
  74.  
  75.  
  76.  4.  Survey Area:        State Summary of Non-Fiscal Data
  77.  
  78.      Years Available:    1983-84 through 1990-91
  79.  
  80.      Description:        Please see Elementary and
  81.                          Secondary Education of the previous
  82.                          edition of the Directory.  This
  83.                          file contains information for
  84.                          school years 1983-84 through 1990-
  85.                          91.  These eight years are also
  86.                          available on a diskette for $75.
  87.  
  88.  
  89.  5.  Survey Area:        Schools and Staffing Survey
  90.                          (Teacher Followup Survey
  91.  
  92.      Years Available:    1987-88 and 1988-89 followup
  93.  
  94.  
  95.      Description:        Please see Elementary and Secondary
  96.                          Education of the previous edition of the
  97.                          Directory.  This file is a followup
  98.                          of the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing
  99.                          Survey (SASS) teacher sample.
  100.                          It was conducted by the U. S. Bureau
  101.                          of the Census to update data on teacher
  102.                          career patterns and plans.  The TFS is a
  103.                          subsample (6,763 respondents) of
  104.                          public and private school teachers
  105.                          in the profession during school
  106.                          year 1987-88.  Of the 6,763
  107.                          teachers, 4,540 were currently
  108.                          teaching, and 2,223 were former
  109.                          teachers.  Survey data in the
  110.                          1987-88 SASS are included as
  111.                          classification variables for
  112.                          analysis of the TFS data.  In
  113.                          addition to the information
  114.                          provided on the 1987-88 SASS
  115.                          teacher sample, data on teachers'
  116.                          employment and teaching status,
  117.                          educational activities, and future
  118.                          plans are in the TFS.
  119.  
  120.  
  121. Postsecondary Education
  122.  
  123.  1.  Survey Area:        Fall Enrollment
  124.  
  125.      Years Available:    1990-91
  126.  
  127.      Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
  128.                          of the previous edition of Directory.
  129.                          Racial/ethnic data for 1990 are
  130.                          included by summary only.
  131.                          Enrollment is provided by year of
  132.                          study (first-time freshmen, other
  133.                          first year, second year, third
  134.                          year, fourth year, and beyond),
  135.                          and by level (undergraduate,
  136.                          graduate, and first-professional)
  137.                          for approximately 6,000
  138.                          postsecondary institutions.
  139.  
  140.  
  141.  2.  Survey Area:        Financial Statistics
  142.  
  143.      Years Available:    1989-90
  144.  
  145.      Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
  146.                          of the previous edition of the
  147.                          Directory.  The imputed data for FY
  148.                          89 are now available.  The FY 90 data
  149.                          are also imputed, and the file
  150.                          contains finance data for over
  151.                          3,000 institutions of higher education.
  152.  
  153.  
  154.  3.  Survey Area:        Faculty Salaries
  155.  
  156.      Years Available:    1990-91
  157.  
  158.      Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education of
  159.                          the previous edition of the Directory.
  160.                          This file contains data for
  161.                          approximately 3,600 institutions of
  162.                          higher education.
  163.  
  164.  
  165.  4.  Survey Area:        Earned Degrees (Completions)
  166.  
  167.      Years Available:    1989-90
  168.  
  169.      Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
  170.                          of the previous edition of the
  171.                          Directory.  This file provides data for
  172.                          over 6,000 postsecondary institutions.
  173.  
  174.  
  175.  5.  Survey Area:        Institutional Characteristics
  176.  
  177.      Years Available:    1991-92
  178.  
  179.      Description:
  180.                          Please see Postsecondary Education
  181.                          of the previous edition of the
  182.                          Directory.  This file includes
  183.                          information for almost 10,000
  184.                          postsecondary institutions.
  185.  
  186.  
  187.  6.  Survey Area:        Fall Staff
  188.  
  189.      Years Available:    1989
  190.  
  191.      Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
  192.                          of the previous edition of the
  193.                          Directory.  This file is the second
  194.                          conducted under IPEDS.  This file
  195.                          provides data for over 5,000
  196.                          postsecondary institutions.
  197.  
  198. Libraries
  199.  
  200.  
  201.  1.  Survey Area         Public Libraries
  202.  
  203.      Years Available:    1990
  204.  
  205.      Description:        Please Libraries of the previous
  206.                          edition of the Directory.  The
  207.                          1990 data is only available on
  208.                          diskettes.  The cost for the set
  209.                          is $75.
  210.  
  211.  
  212. Longitudinal Studies
  213.  
  214.  
  215.  1.  Survey Area:        NLS-72 Postsecondary
  216.                          Education Transcript File
  217.  
  218.      Years Available:    1972-84
  219.  
  220.      Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies
  221.                          of the previous edition of the
  222.                          Directory.  This file is a supplementary
  223.                          addendum with revised transcript, term,
  224.                          and course files.
  225.  
  226.  2.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 Student Data
  227.  
  228.      Years Available:    1990
  229.  
  230.      Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies
  231.                          of the previous edition of the
  232.                          Directory.
  233.  
  234.                          This first followup file contains data
  235.                          from 20,706 individuals.  Data
  236.                          from NELS:88 base-year and first
  237.                          followup can be used in conducting
  238.                          national studies in many areas,
  239.                          including (a) students' academic
  240.                          growth over time, and the family,
  241.                          community, school, and classroom
  242.                          factors that promote or inhibit
  243.                          such growth; (b) the process of
  244.                          dropping out of school, as it
  245.                          occurs from the eighth grade on;
  246.                          (c) school experiences and
  247.                          academic performances of language
  248.                          minority students; and (d)
  249.                          profiling the nation's tenth-
  250.                          graders.
  251.  
  252.  
  253.  3.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 School Data
  254.  
  255.      Years Available:    1990
  256.  
  257.      Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies of
  258.                          the previous edition of the Directory.
  259.                          This first followup file contains
  260.                          survey data collected in 1990 from
  261.                          1,291 school administrators. This
  262.                          file provides information about
  263.                          the characteristics of the schools
  264.                          attended by 17,633 participating
  265.                          first followup students.  This
  266.                          data is intended to provide
  267.                          contextual information about the
  268.                          school environment of individual
  269.                          students.  It is wide ranging, and
  270.                          includes school programs, teacher
  271.                          qualities and  qualifications,
  272.                          aspects of school problems and
  273.                          climates, student demographics,
  274.                          and school relationships with
  275.                          parents and the community.
  276.  
  277.  
  278.  4.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 Teacher Data
  279.  
  280.      Years Available:    1990
  281.  
  282.      Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies of
  283.                          the previous edition of the Directory.
  284.                          The teacher component data file
  285.                          contains questionnaire data
  286.                          collected from 9,987 teachers who
  287.                          were asked to provide four types
  288.                          of information:  (1) their
  289.                          evaluation of the learning and
  290.                          performance of one or more NELS:88
  291.                          participating students; (2)
  292.                          descriptive characteristics of the
  293.                          class/course; (3) their own
  294.                          background characteristics
  295.                          particularly pertinent to
  296.                          teaching; and (4) their
  297.                          assessments of school climate in
  298.                          the NELS:88 school.  Similar to
  299.                          the school component data file,
  300.                          this data file is intended to
  301.                          provide contextual data for
  302.                          analyses that use individual
  303.                          students as the unit of analysis.
  304.                          Each record of this file contains
  305.                          data provided by a teacher for a
  306.                          particular student-teacher pair in
  307.                          a specific subject matter area
  308.                          (e.g., mathematics).  The total
  309.                          number of records is 27,994,
  310.                          representing one to two student-
  311.                          teacher pair records for each of
  312.                          15,908 of the 18,221 students who
  313.                          participated in the NELS:88 First
  314.                          Followup Student Survey.  (NCES
  315.                          plans to have this file available
  316.                          in December 1992.)
  317.  
  318. New Files
  319.  
  320.  
  321.  1.  Survey Area:        Consolidated (CN) Survey Form
  322.  
  323.      Years Available:    1990
  324.  
  325.      Description:        This file contains data on basic
  326.                          statistics for the nation's
  327.                          noncollegiate postsecondary
  328.                          institutions for 1990.  The tape
  329.                          contains data for 2,472
  330.                          noncollegiate postsecondary
  331.                          institutions responding to the CN
  332.                          survey.  These schools represent
  333.                          the universe of 6,284 institutions
  334.                          on the IPEDS file that do not
  335.                          qualify as being either 1)
  336.                          accredited at the college level by
  337.                          an agency recognized by the
  338.                          Secretary of the U.S. Department
  339.                          of Education; or 2) not accredited
  340.                          but that grant a bachelor's,
  341.                          master's, doctor's, or first-
  342.                          professional degree.  The file
  343.                          includes information on fall
  344.                          enrollment for 1990, 1989-90
  345.                          completions data, FY 90 financial
  346.                          data, and 1990 library statistics.
  347.                          The 1990 survey year was the first
  348.                          time the CN form was used to
  349.                          collect data from this segment of
  350.                          the IPEDS universe.
  351.  
  352.  
  353.  2.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 Dropout Data
  354.  
  355.      Years Available:    1990
  356.  
  357.      Description:        The first followup dropout
  358.                          component data file contains
  359.                          questionnaire data collected from
  360.                          1,043 dropouts who left school
  361.                          between the eighth and tenth
  362.                          grades.  Each record contains
  363.                          information (570 variables)
  364.                          collected from dropouts, and
  365.                          covering several areas, including:
  366.                          school experiences and activities;
  367.                          reasons for leaving school;
  368.                          program participation; course-
  369.                          taking patterns; absenteeism;
  370.                          actions taken by the school,
  371.                          parents, and friends in response
  372.                          to a respondent's decision to drop
  373.                          out; the respondent's assessment
  374.                          of the likelihood of returning to,
  375.                          and graduating from high school;
  376.                          experiences after dropping out;
  377.                          current activities and future
  378.                          plans.  (NCES plans to have this
  379.                          file available in November 1992.)
  380.  
  381.  
  382.  3.  Survey Area:        National Household Education Survey (**)
  383.                          Component)
  384.  
  385.      Years Available:    1991
  386.  
  387.      Description:        Data from the ECE component are
  388.                          provided in two separate, but
  389.                          easily merged files--the
  390.                          Preprimary File and the Primary
  391.                          File.  Altogether, information on
  392.                          13,892 3- to 8-year-old children,
  393.                          obtained from the most
  394.                          knowledgeable parents or
  395.                          guardians, is contained on the
  396.                          files (7,655 on the Preprimary;
  397.                          6,237 on the Primary).  The ECE
  398.                          component is a source of
  399.                          information on child care and
  400.                          early childhood program
  401.                          experiences, kindergarten and
  402.                          primary school entry, retention in
  403.                          early grades, parental involvement
  404.                          in center-based programs and
  405.                          schools, the education environment
  406.                          in the home, and household and
  407.                          family characteristics.
  408.  
  409.  
  410.  4.  Survey Area:        National Household Education
  411.                          Component)
  412.  
  413.      Years Available:    1991
  414.  
  415.      Description:        The Adult File of the AE component
  416.                          contains information on 12,568
  417.                          persons, 16 years of age and
  418.                          older, not enrolled full time in
  419.                          high school at the time of the
  420.                          interview.  Of these, 9,774 were
  421.                          participants in adult education
  422.                          activities, i.e., had participated
  423.                          in at least one educational
  424.                          activity in the 12 months prior to
  425.                          the interview; 2,794 were
  426.                          nonparticipants.  The AE component
  427.                          covers these topics:
  428.                          participation in adult education
  429.                          activities in the past year, the
  430.                          past three years, and ever;
  431.                          characteristics of adult education
  432. <{                         courses or activities, including:
  433.                          course title, basic skills and
  434.                          training content, degree
  435.                          requirement fulfillment, sponsor,
  436.                          employer involvement, payment
  437.                          source, and others; perceived
  438.                          benefits of participation in adult
  439.                          education for both participants
  440.                          and nonparticipants; perceived
  441.                          barriers to participation in adult
  442.                          education for both part-time
  443.                          participants and nonparticipants;
  444.                          and, background characteristics of
  445.                          participants and nonparticipants.
  446.                          A Course File, structured around
  447.                          reported courses rather than
  448.                          participants, is also provided.
  449.  
  450.  
  451. Note: (**) Conducted between late January and early May of 1991,
  452. the 1991 National  Household Education Survey (NHES:91) was a
  453. random digit dial telephone survey of households.  Just over
  454. 60,000 households participated in the initial screening interview
  455. of the NHES:91 which covered two topical components:  Early
  456. Childhood Education (ECE) and Adult Education (AE).  Data in each
  457. component have been weight to provide estimates representative
  458. of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United
  459. States.
  460.