Survey of Public and Private School Libraries and Media Centers, 1985: [United States] (ICPSR 2227)
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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02227.v1
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For this survey, a nationally representative sample of 4,500 public schools was taken from the Center for Education Statistics (CES) Universe file, and a nationally representative sample of 1,700 private schools was drawn from a list of private schools in existence in 1983 in 75 private school primary sampling units (PSUs). Data were collected by mail and telephone from the librarians or persons most knowledgeable about the libraries. Respondents were asked to indicate whether the school had a library or media center, and if so, to describe staff size and education, use of volunteers, amount and type of expenditures, collection size, services offered, technology, usage, circulation, and physical facilities.
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A nationally representative sample of 4,500 public schools was taken from the Center for Education Statistics (CES) Universe file, and a nationally representative sample of 1,700 private schools was drawn from a list of private schools in existence in 1983 in 75 private school primary sampling units (PSUs).
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Public and private schools in the United States.
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2002-06-19
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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. SURVEY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND MEDIA CENTERS, 1985: [UNITED STATES]. ICPSR version. 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], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02227.v1
2002-06-19 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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