Common Core of Data: Public School Universe Data, 1988-1989 (ICPSR 6902)

Version Date: Apr 26, 1999

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06902.v2

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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 1988-1989. Data were reported to the Bureau of the Census for the National Center for Education Statistics by the state coordinators. Records in this file provide the name, address, and telephone number of the school/associated agency, codes for school type and locale, number of full-time equivalent classroom teachers, and students eligible for free lunch programs.

Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Common Core of Data:  Public School Universe Data, 1988-1989    . [distributor], 1999-04-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06902.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1988 -- 1989

Date of Collection

1988 -- 1989

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook and user guide are 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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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.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

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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:
  • U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. COMMON CORE OF DATA: PUBLIC SCHOOL UNIVERSE DATA, 1988-1989. 2nd ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06902.v2

1999-04-26 Non-printing characters and an end-of-data marker were deleted from the original dataset.

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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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