Vocational Education [United States]: Survey of Characteristics of Students in Noncollegiate Postsecondary Schools, 1976-1977 (ICPSR 2388)

Version Date: Oct 22, 2001

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02388.v1

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Summary

This survey was designed to collect data on students currently enrolled in occupational programs in public and private noncollegiate postsecondary schools in the United States. Data were collected on the students' age, sex, racial/ethnic background, current employment, future educational and employment plans, and parental background.

Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Vocational Education [United States]:  Survey of Characteristics of Students in Noncollegiate Postsecondary Schools, 1976-1977  . [distributor], 2001-10-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02388.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1976 -- 1977

Data Collection Notes

  1. 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 on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

The sample of schools was chosen from the Postsecondary Career School Survey.

Universe

Students attending occupational programs in public and private noncollegiate postsecondary schools in the United States.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2001-10-16

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. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION [UNITED STATES]: SURVEY OF CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS IN NONCOLLEGIATE POSTSECONDARY SCHOOLS, 1976-1977. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02388.v1

2001-10-16 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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