Common Core of Data: Public Education Agency Universe, 1991-1992 (ICPSR 6918)

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 of the United States for 1991-1992. Data were reported to the Bureau of the Census for the National Center for Education Statistics by the state coordinators. Each record provides state and federal identificati... (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, 1991-1992. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06918.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06918.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 of the United States for 1991-1992. Data were reported to the Bureau of the Census for the National Center for Education Statistics by the state coordinators. Each record provides state and federal identification numbers, agency address, name, and telephone number, county name and FIPS code, agency type code, student counts, graduates and other completers counts, and other codes for selected characteristics of the agency. Information on grade span and the number of schools, classroom teachers, and staff is also included in most cases.

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 enrollments, students, teachers

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

Time Period:  

• 1991--1992

Date of Collection:  

• 1991--1992

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.

Data Types:   census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

The codebook is 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.

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:  1998-05-20

Version History:

• 1999-11-02 The SAS data definition statements have been corrected and updated to indicate that some missing values are denoted as M or N.

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