Survey of Public and Private School Libraries and Media Centers, 1985: [United States]

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

Summary: For this survey, a nationally representative sample of 4,500 public schools was taken from the Center for Education Statistics (CES) Universe file, and a nationally representative sample of 1,700 private schools was drawn from a list of private schools in existence in 1983 in 75 private school primary sampling units (PSUs). Data were collected by mail and telephone from the librarians or persons most knowledgeable about the libraries. Respondents were asked to indicate whether the school ... (more info)

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U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. SURVEY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND MEDIA CENTERS, 1985: [UNITED STATES]. ICPSR version. 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], 2002. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02227.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02227.v1

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Summary: For this survey, a nationally representative sample of 4,500 public schools was taken from the Center for Education Statistics (CES) Universe file, and a nationally representative sample of 1,700 private schools was drawn from a list of private schools in existence in 1983 in 75 private school primary sampling units (PSUs). Data were collected by mail and telephone from the librarians or persons most knowledgeable about the libraries. Respondents were asked to indicate whether the school had a library or media center, and if so, to describe staff size and education, use of volunteers, amount and type of expenditures, collection size, services offered, technology, usage, circulation, and physical facilities.

Subject Terms: education, expenditures, facilities, library collections, library services, personnel, private schools, public schools, technology, volunteers

Geographic Coverage: United States

Date of Collection:

1985

Universe: Public and private schools in the United States.

Data Types: survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The codebook and data collection instrument are provided by ICPSR 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.

Sample: A nationally representative sample of 4,500 public schools was taken from the Center for Education Statistics (CES) Universe file, and a nationally representative sample of 1,700 private schools was drawn from a list of private schools in existence in 1983 in 75 private school primary sampling units (PSUs).

Data Source:

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Extent of Processing: 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: