Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Higher Education Finance Data, 1988-1989 (ICPSR 6901)

Version Date: Aug 28, 1998

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06901.v1

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Summary

This data collection contains information on finances for a sample of postsecondary institutions in the United States. The finance data, collected annually, are used for reporting and projecting capital outlays of two-year and four-year colleges and universities, trends in replacements of plant assets, and performance of endowment funds. Variables include fund revenues by source, expenditures by function, land, buildings, equipment assets, balances and transactions on the physical plant, endowments, and changes in fund balance.

Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS):  Higher Education Finance Data, 1988-1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998-08-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06901.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)

1988 -- 1989

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 through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.

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Sample

The survey was mailed to 6,572 postsecondary institutions in the United States that were four-year, two-year public and private nonprofit, less-than-two-year public institutions, and an additional sample of two-year for-profit and less-than-two-year nonprofit private institutions.

Universe

All postsecondary institutions in operation in fiscal year 1989 in the United States and its outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1998-08-28

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. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Higher Education Finance Data, 1988-1989. ICPSR06901-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06901.v1

1998-08-28 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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