Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) XX: Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education, 1985 (ICPSR 2071)
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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02071.v1
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The Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) was designed to provide comprehensive information on various aspects of postsecondary education in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside the United States. The HEGIS Fall Enrollment Component for 1985 sought enrollment data from 3,388 institutions of higher education in 50 states, Washington, DC, and outlying territories and gave counts of total enrollments by class level, number of full-time and part-time male and female students enrolled at various levels (graduate, undergraduate, etc.), sex, race, calendar system, type of accreditation, attendance status (full-time versus part-time), and enrollments of first-time students. All of these data are acquired in terms of head counts and full-time equivalents, by state. These data are required by agencies of the legislative and executive branches of state and federal governments, as well as by accrediting agencies, professional organizations, and a number of individual institutions interested in conducting comparative studies.
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The record count for this study is 48,046, and the Fall Enrollment Survey forms were mailed to the 3,388 institutions in the HEGIS universe. The final edited data contain 3,130 reporting units, of which 138 were imputed using 1984 data, 89 were imputed using 1983 data, and 31 were zero-filled.
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All postsecondary institutions operating during 1985 in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside of the United States.
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2005-07-06
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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. HIGHER EDUCATION GENERAL INFORMATION SURVEY (HEGIS) XX: FALL ENROLLMENT IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 1985. ICPSR02071-v1. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-06. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02071.v1
2005-07-06 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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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?