Description & Citation--Study No. 2071

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

02071

Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) XX: Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education, 1985

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. HIGHER EDUCATION GENERAL INFORMATION SURVEY (HEGIS) XX: FALL ENROLLMENT IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 1985. ICPSR02071-v1. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02071.v1

Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) Series

Scope of Study

The Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) was designed to provide comprehensive information on various aspects of postsecondary education in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside the United States. The HEGIS Fall Enrollment Component for 1985 sought enrollment data from 3,388 institutions of higher education in 50 states, Washington, DC, and outlying territories and gave counts of total enrollments by class level, number of full-time and part-time male and female students enrolled at various levels (graduate, undergraduate, etc.), sex, race, calendar system, type of accreditation, attendance status (full-time versus part-time), and enrollments of first-time students. All of these data are acquired in terms of head counts and full-time equivalents, by state. These data are required by agencies of the legislative and executive branches of state and federal governments, as well as by accrediting agencies, professional organizations, and a number of individual institutions interested in conducting comparative studies.

academic disciplines, accreditation (institutions), colleges, community colleges, demographic characteristics, higher education, postsecondary education, school enrollments, students, universities

American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, United States, Virgin Islands of the United States, Global

• 1985

• 1985  (Fall 1985)

All postsecondary institutions operating during 1985 in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside of the United States.

survey data

The record count for this study is 48,046, and the Fall Enrollment Survey forms were mailed to the 3,388 institutions in the HEGIS universe. The final edited data contain 3,130 reporting units, of which 138 were imputed using 1984 data, 89 were imputed using 1983 data, and 31 were zero-filled.

Methodology

none

self-enumerated questionnaires

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

2005-07-06