Elementary and Secondary General Information System (ELSEGIS): Public School District Universe Data, 1972-1973 (ICPSR 2125)

Version Date: Oct 27, 2000

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02125.v1

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Summary

This dataset contains records for each public elementary and secondary school in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) in fall 1972. The data provide information on name, address, county, and district of the school, programs offered, and numbers of pupils and teachers by organizational level of government control. School-by-school data were obtained through various procedures chosen by the state education agencies from options established by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Elementary and Secondary General Information System (ELSEGIS):  Public School District Universe Data, 1972-1973  . [distributor], 2000-10-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02125.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Date of Collection

1972 -- 1973

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook and data collection instrument 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 on the ICPSR Web site.

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Universe

All public elementary and secondary education agencies in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and United States territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) during 1972-1973.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

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Original Release Date

2000-10-27

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY GENERAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (ELSEGIS): PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT UNIVERSE DATA, 1972-1973. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1973. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02125.v1

2000-10-27 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

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