Common Core of Data: Public School Universe Data, 1996-1997 (ICPSR 2823)

Version Date: May 17, 2000

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

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02823.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, 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 the National Center for Education Statistics and state identification numbers, name and ID number of the agency operating the school, name, address, and phone number of the school, school type (regular, special education, vocational education, alternative), locale code (seven categories from urban to rural), number of students by grade and ungraded, number of students eligible for free lunch, and number of students by five race/ethnic categories.

Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Common Core of Data:  Public School Universe Data, 1996-1997 . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000-05-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02823.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1996 -- 1997

Date of Collection

1997

Data Collection Notes

  1. (1) The data contain high ASCII, accented Spanish characters. (2) Users are encouraged to check the NCES homepage (http://www.ed.gov/NCES/ccd/) for additional information on this collection. (3) The codebook and instruction manual are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. 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.
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Universe

All public elementary and secondary schools 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 during 1996-1997.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

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Original Release Date

2000-05-17

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:
  • United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Common Core of Data: Public School Universe Data, 1996-1997 [Computer File]. ICPSR02823-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000-05-17. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02823.v1

2000-05-17 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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