Postsecondary Career School Survey, 1981: [United States] (ICPSR 2383)
Version Date: Dec 21, 2001 View help for published
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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02383.v1
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This survey was designed to collect data on postsecondary institutions offering vocational education programs. These data are used to develop a directory that parallels existing U.S. Office of Education directories of colleges and universities, both public and private. The data collected give comprehensive information on career training opportunities and a complete universe of institutions from which samples may be drawn. Information on individual institutions includes identification and location of institutions, size of vocational enrollments, vocational education programs offered, specific accreditation data, and other general information.
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Individual postsecondary institutions offering vocational education programs.
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2001-12-21
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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. POSTSECONDARY CAREER SCHOOL SURVEY, 1981: [UNITED STATES]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1981. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02383.v1
2001-12-21 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?