Description & Citation--Study No. 4253

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

04253

Title:

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Earned Degrees, 1990-1991

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

Bibliographic Citation:

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Earned Degrees, 1990-1991. ICPSR04253-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04253.v1

Series:

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection contains information on degrees earned at a sample of postsecondary institutions in the United States. The survey collected data on the number of completions of academic, vocational, and continuing professional educational programs by award category. There are three files in the collection. Part 1, Response Status Information, contains response status information to the completions survey for active institutions in the sample. Part 2, Postsecondary Completions: Awards/Degrees Conferred, contains the number of degrees and other awards granted by the institution in each field of study (CIP code), by level of award/degree, and sex of recipient. Part 3, Postsecondary Completions by Major Discipline (Two-Digit CIP Codes), contains the number of degrees and other awards conferred by major discipline (two-digit CIP code), award level, race/ethnicity, and sex of recipient.

Subject Terms:

academic degrees, associate degrees, bachelors degrees, colleges, community colleges, doctoral degrees, earned degrees, ethnicity, higher education, masters degrees, postsecondary education, universities

Geographic Coverage:

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

Time Period:

  • 1990-07-01--1991-06-30

Date of Collection:

  • 1991-10--l992-03

Universe:

All postsecondary institutions in operation during 1990-1991 in the United States and its territories.

Data Types:

survey data

Methodology

Weight:

None

Mode of Data Collection:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Extent of Processing:

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

Note:

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

Original ICPSR Release:

2005-07-06

Dataset(s):

  • DS1: Response Status Information
  • DS2: Postsecondary Completions: Awards/Degrees Conferred
  • DS3: Postsecondary Completions by Major Discipline (Two-Digit CIP Codes)

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