The Institutional Characteristics (IC) Survey File of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) provides basic data describing the universe of postsecondary institutions in the United States and its outlying areas. The data from the 10,074 reporting postsecondary schools are used for sample design and selection for other IPEDS…

The National Center for Education Statistics has prepared a data tape for the 1988 Fall Enrollment Survey, representing 11,461 postsecondary institutions in the United States and its outlying areas. The survey is part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and is the second time that IPEDS has collected ethnic and racial…

The Private School Universe study is available in a machine-readable data tape file--NCES.XEESBF.PRIVATE.SCHOOLS.A76-80.NO79.RAW--containing data on 22,771 private schools in the United States (236 records were identified as duplicates and deleted). The file provides each school's: (1) name; (2) mailing address; (3) public school district; (4)…

This file contains data collected in 1981 from postsecondary institutions offering vocational education programs. This file provides detailed information on the individual program offerings of the responding institutions, including enrollments in various categories, completions, and other outcomes. Institutional and program characteristics are…

High School and Beyond is a national longitudinal study of the cohorts of 1980 high school seniors and sophomores in the United States. The School File, a machine-readable data file (MRDF) contains questionnaire response data provided by administrators from 988 public, Catholic, and private schools. The file focuses on a number of school…

The Institutional Characteristics machine-readable data file (MRDF) is a subfile of the larger Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). It contains extensive descriptive information about more than 3,000 accredited institutions of higher education in the United States and its outlying territories. Each record includes the following…

The "Opening Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" machine-readable data file (MRDF), often simply called the "Fall Enrollment" file, is a component survey of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). It has been conducted annually since 1966. Survey forms are sent to all colleges and universities…

The National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 collected data on the attributes of students attending postsecondary institutions. The NLS also collected the names of any postsecondary institutions this cohort of students attended and/or applied to during the first two years after high school. In order to provide a link…

The "High School Senior Cohort Study for 1965 and 1973" is a two-part machine-readable data file (MRDF) containing background information about the social and political climate of the peer groups and the entire senior classes of the high school students interviewed for the "Student-Parent Socialization Study, 1965" (ICPSR-7286). The schools in…