Description & Citation--Study No. 2220

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

Bibliographic Description

02220

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Higher Education Finance Data, 1987-1988

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM (IPEDS): HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE DATA, 1987-1988. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1988. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02220.v1

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Series

Scope of Study

This data collection contains information on finances for a sample of postsecondary institutions in the United States. The finance data, collected annually, are used for reporting and projecting capital outlays of two-year and four-year colleges and universities, trends in replacements of plant assets, and performance of endowment funds. The first part of the study, Institutional Characteristics, includes variables on control and level of institution, religious affiliation, highest level of offering, and state FIPS codes and abbreviations. Part A of the study, Current Funds Revenues by Source, provides each institution's current fund revenues by source (e.g., tuition and fees, government, gifts). Part B, Current Funds Expenditures by Function, covers expenditures for instruction, research, and plant maintenance. Part E, Scholarships and Fellowship Expenditures, covers scholarships and fellowships.

colleges, community colleges, educational expenditures, financial management, financial policy, funding, higher education, postsecondary education, universities

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

• 1987--1988

• 1987-09--1988-06

All postsecondary institutions in operation in 1987-1988 in the United States, the District of Columbia, and outlying territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside the United States.

survey data

(1) Each record on the data file represents one observation of a responding or imputed higher education institution for parts A, B, and E of the questionnaire. The other parts of the questionnaire (parts C, D, F, G, H, I, J, and K) are not included on the imputed file. (2) The codebook and data collection instruments are provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.

Methodology

The Finance surveys (F1 and F2) were mailed to 3,626 postsecondary schools, representing the universe of all four-year, two-year public and private nonprofit, less-than-two-year public institutions, and a sample of two-year for-profit and less-than-two-year private institutions. The survey was also mailed to 3,451 other postsecondary education institutions (those not accredited by an agency recognized by the Secretary of Education). However, response rates did not meet NCES standards, and so these data are not included on this file.

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.

1999-07-16