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Burns, Shelley, Ed.; Wang, Xiaolei, Ed.; Henning, Alexandra, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Since its inception, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has been committed to the practice of documenting its statistical methods for its customers and of seeking to avoid misinterpretation of its published data. The reason for this policy is to assure customers that proper statistical standards and techniques have been observed,…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Data Processing, Statistical Data, Data Collection
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Statistics on Education. – 1975
The first 15 pages of the manual provide: (1) background information on the importance of adult education, the need for adult education statistics, the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), and the scope of the term adult education; (2) the application of ISCED to adult education and the ISCED classifications (levels, fields,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Collection, Data Processing, Glossaries
Fingerman, Paul W. – 1979
Recommendations are made for data processing procedures for the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Common Core of Data survey program. Data are anticipated from about 16,000 local education agencies and 85,000 schools in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 7 territories. These recommendations concern editing and verification…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1979
This brief, semi-technical handbook describes the various data systems of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) with summaries of background, purpose and scope, sample design, data collection procedures, questionnaire content, data release, and data uses for individual NCHS surveys. NCHS operates a diverse survey and inventory program…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Health Services, Information Dissemination
Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1992
This user's manual has been produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the first follow-up teacher component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). The teacher component provides teacher information that can be used to analyze the behaviors and outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases, Evaluation Utilization
Levinsohn, Jay R.; Riccobono, John A. – 1975
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) is a large-scale longitudinal survey effort. The current data tapes contain base-year (1972) survey data integrated with first follow-up (1973) survey data. The base-year data consist of responses to a Student Questionnaire, the results of an ability test, and information from…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases
Levinsohn, Jay; And Others – 1978
This Users Manual is the supporting documentation for the Public Use Data File from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS). The data file contains certain merged data from the base year (1972), and first, second, and third follow-up NLS surveys for 22,652 cases. This volume contains only appendices K through Q, as…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Databases, Followup Studies