Common Core of Data: Public Education Agency Universe, 1996-1997 (ICPSR 2821)

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

Summary: This dataset contains records for each public elementary and secondary education agency in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, United States territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands), and Department of Defense schools outside the United States for 1996-1997. Records in this file provide National Center for Education Statistics and state identification numbers, agency name, address, and telephone number, county name, agency type (reg... (more info)

Series: Common Core of Data (CCD) Series

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U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. COMMON CORE OF DATA: PUBLIC EDUCATION AGENCY UNIVERSE, 1996-1997. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1998. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02821.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02821.v1

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Summary:   This dataset contains records for each public elementary and secondary education agency in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, United States territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands), and Department of Defense schools outside the United States for 1996-1997. Records in this file provide National Center for Education Statistics and state identification numbers, agency name, address, and telephone number, county name, agency type (regular school district, component of supervisory union, headquarters of supervisory union, regional educational service agency, state-operated agency, federally-operated agency, other), metropolitan status, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) code if applicable, number of students (ungraded/PK-12), number of students with special education Individual Education Programs (IEPs), number of high school completers (regular diploma/other diploma/other completers), number of staff, and dropout data for grades 7-12 .

Subject Terms:   demographic characteristics, elementary schools, high school graduates, high schools, junior high schools, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, middle schools, noninstructional staff, public schools, school districts, school dropouts, school enrollments, students, teachers

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

Time Period:  

• 1997

Date of Collection:  

• 1996--1997

Universe:   All public elementary and secondary education agencies in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, United States territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands), and Department of Defense schools outside of the United States during 1996-1997.

Data Types:   census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

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Data Source:

self-enumerated forms

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:

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

Original ICPSR Release:  2000-05-19

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