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Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS)

The BPS followed first time beginning students from the NPSAS conducted in 1989-90. NPSAS:90 asked additional questions of students eligible for BPS concerning background and experiences related to completion of postsecondary education. The BPS:90/92 data further describe the experiences during, and transitions through, postsecondary education and into the labor force, as well as family formation. Transfers, persisters, stopouts/dropouts, and vocational completers were among those who completed interviews in the first follow-up conducted in 1992. In the second follow-up, conducted in 1994, many will have completed a bachelors degree as well. Base year (NPSAS:90)data and first follow-up (BPS:(90/92) are available as a single data file.

NCES provides access to BPS data through the SDA Web Website. At this site you will find a link to a Windows software Survey Documentation and Analysis application (SAS). Users must download this software to their personal computers, create and submit their own specifications to generate statistical tables to this Web site, and retrieve their results.