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• 'Brain Drain' Debate in the United Kingdom, c.1950-1970
  Qualitative project. Sought to provide an analysis of the 'brain drain' debate of the 1950s and 1960s as a social phenomenon. The term 'brain drain' was adopted in the 1960s in the context of concerns the United Kingdom was losing skilled scientific and engineering personnel to other countries. Although the term is used in a variety of academic, policy and popular discussions about the international mobility of scientists, this project sought to rectify the absence of scholarly literature analyzing the original 'brain drain' debate. Comprised of 19 oral history interviews with scientists and engineers who emigrated to the United States or Canada in the 1950s or 1960s as well as British policymakers involved in any way in the 'brain drain' debate at this time. Also included is the transcript of a 'witness seminar' that brought officials and former emigres together to discuss their recollections. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Adaptation Process of Cuban and Haitian Refugees
  Longitutidinal study that focuses on 2 samples of refugees living in southern Florida: a group of 514 Cuban refugees who arrived as part of the Mariel boat lift of 1980, and a sample of 500 Haitian refugees who arrived between 1980 and 82. The questionnaire administered at the time of the refugee's arrival combined items on various aspects of adaptation with questions on the respondent's background prior to arrival, their reasons for coming, details of their journey to the United States, and tracing information necessary to conduct the second interview. The 2nd interview focused exclusively on 3 main aspects comprising the immigrant (refugee) adaptation process these include: (1) structural adaptation or educational, occupational and economic mobility in the host society; (2) cultural adaptation conceptualized as changes in self-perception, attitudes, language use and other normative patterns; and social adaptation, or shifts in the individual's network of primary and secondary relationships within the ethnic circle.

• Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) Study
  Provides an opportunity to examine the effects of education on adolescent behavior, academic achievement, and cognitive and psychosocial development in the 1990s. Expands the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). While Add Health is a rich source of data on social contexts and adolescent development, it has limited information on the academic trajectories of youth. Thus, the AHAA study contributes to Add Health by providing the high school transcripts of Add Health Wave III sample members. The AHAA data provides indicators of (1) educational achievement, (2) course taking patterns, (3) curricular exposure, and (4) educational contexts within and between schools, all of which can be linked to the Add Health survey data. Access is restricted and through Sociometrics. To access
• Click on Data Archives.
• Click on Data Archive on Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention.
• Go to The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Wave III, 2001-2002 (Add Health).
• Click on Download Instructions.
• Submit the request form.
• You will then have to wait to get permission to use.

• Annual survey of colleges standard research compilation : undergraduate institutions (1984+)
  College Entrance Examination Board data on undergraduate institutions and their admissions, enrollments, degrees offered, and facilities. Unit of analysis is the school. Codebooks are at (DSS) LA226 .A56.

• Annual Survey of Colleges Standard Research Compilation, Graduate and First Professional Institutions (1999-2004)
  College Entrance Examination Board data on graduate and professional institutions and their admissions, enrollments, degrees offered, and facilities. Unit of analysis is the school. Codebooks are at DSS LB2371.4.A83. Series has ceased.

• Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B)
  Provides information concerning education and work experiences after completion of bachelor's degrees. Provides both cross-sectional information 1 year after bachelor's degree completion, comparable to the Recent College Graduate Survey, and longitudinal data concerning entry into and progress through graduate-level education and the workforce. A special emphasis is on those entering teaching. Provides information on entry into, persistence and progress through, and completion of graduate-level education. This information has not been available through follow-ups involving high school cohorts or even college-entry cohorts, both of which are restricted in the number who actually complete the bachelor's degrees and continue their education. B&B:93/97 provided a unique opportunity to gather information concerning delayed entry into graduate education, time to completion of graduate education, and the interaction between work and education beyond obtaining bachelor's degrees. B&B:93/2003 will expand this opportunity and begin to provide information concerning graduate study and long-term employment experiences after degree completion.

• Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) Longitudinal Study
  Designed specifically to collect data related to persistence in and completion of postsecondary education programs; relationships between work and education efforts; and the effect of postsecondary education on the lives of individuals. Follows students who are enrolled in a postsecondary institution for the first time. Initially, these individuals are surveyed through the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to find out how they and their families pay for education beyond high school. These same students are surveyed 2- and 5-years later through BPS to find out about their undergraduate experiences, persistence in school, degree completion, and employment following enrollment.

• Cal-Learn Study of Teenage Mothers
  Study of Cal-Learn, a California program to help pregnant and custodial teen parents on AFDC to stay in school and obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent. Available data include Assistance History Files, County and Case Management Data, and survey data. Asks questions about the teen's life experiences both before and after becoming pregnant and enrolling in Cal-Learn.

  Wave I was conducted between April 24, 1996 and April 12, 1999. Wave II, follow-up telephone interviews with participants from Wave I, was conducted between July 22, 1997 and October 31, 1999.

  Sample Size: Wave I - 2,768; Wave II - 2,022.

  Citation:
  Cal-Learn Study of Teenage Mothers (Electronic File)
  Producer: Research Branch, California Department of Social Services and UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
  Distributor: UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
  

• Chicago Longitudinal Study, 1986-1989
  Investigated the educational and social development of a same-age cohort of 1,539 low-income, minority children (93 percent African American) who grew up in high-poverty neighborhoods in central-city Chicago and attended government-funded kindergarten programs in the Chicago Public Schools in 1985-1986. Children were at risk of poor outcomes because they face social-environmental disadvantages including neighborhood poverty, family low-income status, and other economic and educational hardships.

• Common Core of Data (CCD) (1978+)
  Department of Education's primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the United States. Comparable across all states, the CCD consists of 4 surveys completed annually by state education departments to report data about all United States public elementary and secondary schools, local education agencies, and state education agencies. 3 categories of information are included: a general description of schools and school districts, including name, address, and phone number; data on students and staff, including demographics; and fiscal data, including revenues and current expenditures. Preceded by the Elementary & Secondary Education General Information Survey (ELSEGIS) (1967-1980)

• Community Indicators Survey (1999-2002)
  Undertaken by the Knight Foundation to document the social health of the 26 communities in which the Knight brothers published newspapers. Local area surveys were conducted in each of the 26 communities in both 1999 and 2002. In 2002, a number of the local area surveys were supplemented with regional surveys or surveys of a neighboring city. National surveys were also conducted in order to provide comparative benchmark measures. Measured citizens' civic engagement and attitudes concerning 7 topic areas: education, arts and culture, children and social welfare, community development, homelessness, literacy, and citizenship.

• Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago
  Conducts research on Chicago's public schools, the problems they face, and the mechanisms for improvement. Conducts surveys of students, teachers, and principals, and compiles test scores, grade files and administrative histories. Also houses additional data including census data for Chicago, crime statistics, administrative history, data on students, and detailed information on 363 Chicago neighborhoods. Possesses the nation's largest collection of data on a city's public school system and students. Registration is required.

• Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Series
  National study of college freshmen in the United States. ICPSR has 1967-1985. For later years, see the CIRP Freshman Survey.

• Current Population Survey, October Supplement
  This is the School Enrollment Supplement of the Current Population Survey, and contains school enrollment information for respondents 3 years old and over. The data and program for accessing it are available over the Princeton Network. Data has been collected annually since 1968.

  Sample Size: Approximately 56,000 households.

  Citation:
  Current Population Survey, October Supplement (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
  Producer: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
  Distributor: Unicon Research Corporation
  

• Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education (2006)
  

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
  Includes 3 longitudinal studies that examine child development, school readiness, and early school experiences. The birth cohort of the ECLS-B is a sample of children born in 2001 and followed from birth through kindergarten entry. The kindergarten class of 1998-99 cohort is a sample of children followed from kindergarten through the 8th grade. The kindergarten class of 2010-11 cohort will follow a sample of children from kindergarten through the 5th grade. Available on CD; check the library catalog for the most current release. Also see the NCES site.

• Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)
  Longitudinal survey that will monitor the transitions of a national sample of young people as they progress from tenth grade to, eventually, the world of work. Check the Main Catalog for releases and access.

• Education Statistics (World Bank)
  Worldwide data on education from national statistical reports, statistical annexes of new publications, and other data sources. Includes public expenditure data.

• Education Statistics on the Web
  Guide to education statistics and data.

• Equity in Athletics (2001+)
  Provides customized reports for public inquiries relating to equity in athletics data. The data are drawn from the OPE Equity in Athletics Disclosure Website database. Consists of athletics data that are submitted annually as required by the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act by all co-educational postsecondary institutions that receive Title IV funding (i.e., those that participate in federal student aid programs) and that have an intercollegiate athletics program.

• Evaluation of Effects of the Learnfare Program, 1993-1996
  Wisconsin's Learnfare program is intended to encourage enrollment, regular attendance, and high school graduation of the completion of high school equivalency programs among 13- to 19-year-old recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). These teenagers, who can be either dependent children or parents, risk losing part or all of their families' monthly AFDC grants if they do not maintain enrollment and acceptable school attendance. Free registration is required. Courtesy of University of Wisconsin.

• Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
  Follows a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly 3/4 of whom were born to unmarried parents). Refers to unmarried parents and their children as fragile families to underscore that they are families and that they are at greater risk of breaking up and living in poverty than more traditional families. Designed to primarily address 4 questions: (1) What are the conditions and capabilities of unmarried parents, especially fathers?; (2) What is the nature of the relationships between unmarried parents?; (3) How do children born into these families fare?; and (4) How do policies and environmental conditions affect families and children?

  Citation:
  Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Sara McLanahan & Christina Paxson (Princeton University) and Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ron Mincy, & Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University)
  

• Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (1993, 1997, 1999, 2001)
  Multi-round survey that interviewed students in 4 year colleges and universities, examined key issues in alcohol abuse and other high risk behaviors among college students, including the relationship of state alcohol control measures and college policies to alcohol use and the role of fraternities and sororities, easy access to alcohol, and low alcohol prices. Collected information on students' use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs, views on campus alcohol policies and student alcohol use, reasons for drinking alcohol and reasons for not drinking or limiting drinking, and personal difficulties caused by drinking problems (e.g., missed classes and trouble with police). Additional topics include overall health status, daily activities, satisfaction with education being received, grade-point average, living arrangements, social life, sexual activity (heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual), use of condoms during sexual intercourse, rape, and drunk driving. Background variables include age, height, weight, sex, marital status, religion, mother's and father's education, mother's and father's drinking habits, race, and Hispanic origin.

• High School and Beyond (HS&B) Series
  Describes the activities of seniors and sophomores as they progressed through high school, postsecondary education, and into the workplace. Data cover the period 1980 through 1992 and include parent, teacher, and high school transcript data, student financial aid records, and college transcripts in addition to student questionnaires.

  ICPSR only has the data through 1986 (3rd follow-up). For the 4th follow up, the DAS system at the National Center for Education Statistics allows limited online analysis. DSS has the 4th follow-up (1992) also.

  Citation:
  High School and Beyond (HS&B) Series (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: United States Department of Education. Center for Education Statistics
  Producer: National Opinion Research Center
  Distributor: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research; U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  

• Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) (1965-1986)
  Provide 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. Data are available for both public and private 2-year and 4-year institutions. There are 8 components: Earned Degrees/Completions, Employees, Finance, Residence and Migration, Salaries, Fall Enrollment, Institutional Characteristics, and Libraries.

• Houston Area Survey, 1982-2007: Successive Representative Samples of Harris County Residents
  Longitudinal study that began in May 1982 after Houston recovered from recession of the mid-1980s. Measured the public responses to the new economic, educational, and environmental challenges. Part 1, All Responses from 25 Successive Samples, contains all the responses from the successive representative samples of Harris County residents from 1982 through 2007. These are the data that enabled the project to analyze continuity and change among area residents over the course of 26 years. In 13 of the 14 surveys (the years from 1994 through 2007, the one exception being 1996), the surveys were expanded with oversample interviews in Houston's ethnic communities. Using identical random-selection procedures, and terminating after the first few questions if the respondent was not of the ethnic background required, additional interviews were conducted in each of the years to enlarge and equalize the samples of Anglo, African-American, and Hispanic respondents at about 500 each. In 1995 & 2002, the research also included large representative samples (N=500) from Houston's Asian communities. These additional interviews are included in Part 2, Additional Oversample Interviews. The data contained in Part 2 are based on a 14-year total of 6,576 Anglos, 6,086 African-Americans, 6,094 Hispanics, and 1,250 Asians, along with 387 others, and are of particular value in assessing the similarities and differences both within and among Houston's (and America's) 4 largest ethnic groups. Beginning in 2003, the data files have incorporated detailed information from the 2000 Census on the characteristics of the respondent's neighborhood, not only at the level of home ZIP code, but also by Census tract & block group. Found in Part 3, Information from 2000 Census, these data record the population and geographical area of each of the three sectors, distributions by ethnicity & immigrant status, age & gender composition, employment & commuting patterns, and levels of education & income. With this information incorporated in the datasets covering 5 years of expanded surveys, researchers are able to connect the respondents' perceptions and experiences with information on the neighborhoods in which they live, thereby adding a contextual dimension to analyses of the factors that account for individual differences in attitudes and beliefs. Measured perspectives on the local and national economy, on poverty programs, inter-ethnic relationships. Also captured were respondents' beliefs about discrimination and affirmative action, education, crime, health care, taxation, and community service, as well as their assessments of downtown development, mobility and transit, land-use controls, and environmental concerns, and their attitudes toward abortion, homosexuality, and other aspects of the social agenda. Also recorded were religious and political orientations, as well as an array of demographic and immigration characteristics, socioeconomic indicators, and family structures.

• Humanities Indicators Prototype
  Quantitative descriptive statistics that chart trends over time in aspects of the humanities: education, the workforce, funding and research, and their role in American life.

• ICPSR Education Datasets List
  Very long list of assorted major and minor education datasets held at ICPSR.

• ICPSR International Archive of Education Data (IAED)
  Preserves and disseminates education data. At the moment the primary focus of the archive is making data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) fully accessible. Important datasets include:
  
  • The Common Core of Data
    A comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of information concerning all public elementary and secondary schools (e.g., enrollment by grade, student characteristics, number of teachers) and school districts (e.g., number of students, number of high school graduates in the previous year).
  • Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)
    SASS is the nation's largest sample survey of the characteristics and conditions of America's public and private schools and the teachers and principals who work in them.
  • National Household Education Surveys (NHES)
    The NHES surveys cover learning at all ages, from early childhood to school age to adulthood. Surveys include adult education (1991, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003), early childhood program participation (1991, 1995, 1999, 2001), and parent and family involvement in education (1996, 1999, 2003) among others.
  • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
    IPEDS is a system of surveys designed to collect data from all primary providers of postsecondary education. Study components include earned degrees/completions, Fall enrollment, Fall staff, finance statistics, institutional characteristics, and salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits of full-time instructional faculty.

• JTPA Standardized Program Information Report (1993-1999)
  The JTPA provided job training services and vocational education programs for the economically disadvantaged, dislocated workers, and other individuals likely to face employment barriers. The data for each terminating individual include date of birth, gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, program participation, welfare receipt, education status, reading and math skills, labor force status, type and extent of training received, receipt of supportive services, attainment of skills, employment outcomes, and follow-up information.

• Lifelong Learning Demonstration (1990-1998)
  Tested strategies for promoting continuing education and training among mature incumbent workers (individuals age 25 and over with recent work experience). Included designing and testing a targeted public information campaign promoting lifelong learning to mature incumbent workers in the Greater Baltimore area.

• Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
  First program in the United States to provide major subsidies to private schools as part of a general voucher program. Data were collected as part of the annual evaluation of this program.

  Sample Size: Student enrollment ranged from 341 to 830, while school participation ranged from 6 to 12.

  Citation:
  Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Witte, John F., and Christopher A. Thorn, 1990/1991-1994/1995
  Producer: Madison, WI: John F. Witte and Christopher A. Thorn, 1995
  Distributor: Madison, WI: Data and Program Library Service, 1995
  

• Monitoring the Future. 1976+
  Ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of some 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed. A number of questions on drug use are asked.

  Sample Size: 8th grade - approx. 18,000; 10th grade - approx. 17,000; 12th grade - approx. 16,000.

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) (1970-1980, 1987, 1990+)
  Provides measures of educational quality and direct assessment of educational outcomes and attainments on a national basis. Continued by NAEP data in The Nation's Report Card. (1990+)

• National Center for Analyis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
  State administrative longitudinal databases.

• National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) 1988
  Sample of eighth-graders surveyed in 1988 on a range of topics. Survey topics beyond schoolwork include smoking, drug use, and extracurricular activities. A sample were resurveyed through four follow-ups in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2000. The study has four types of data files - student, teacher, parent, and school - although note each type is available for each survey year. The data are also available on CD; ask at the Social Science Reference Desk for ED1.334/2:ED 8/988-2000/CD.

  Sample Size: In 1988, the cohort size was almost 25,000 students from over 1,000 public and private schools.

• National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, 1991-1999
  Launched to test the value of extending comprehensive, Head Start-like supports "upward" through the first 4 years of elementary school. Conducted to provide information about the implementation of this program and its impact on children, families, schools, and communities.

  Sample Size: 7,5 15 former head start children & families from 31 sites.

• National Household Education Survey (NHES) (1991+)
  Designed to collect information from households on a variety of educational issues including adult education, parent and family involvement in education, before- and after-school programs and activities, civic involvement, early childhood program participation, household library use, school readiness, homeschooling, and school safety and discipline.

• National Job Corps Study (1994-1995)
  Job Corps is the nation's largest & most comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk youth, ages 16 through 24. Combines classroom, practical, and work-based learning experiences to prepare youths become more responsible, employable and productive citizens. Contains information on education, employment and earnings, marital status and household composition, fertility, welfare receipt and other income, health, drug use and drug treatment, arrest behavior and criminal incidents conducted against or by the respondent. In addition, the 30-month follow-up interview contains data on literacy skills.

• National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF)
  Developed to provide comprehensive data to test different theoretical explanations for minority underachievement in higher education. Measures the academic and social progress of college students at regular intervals at selective schools. Notable for including equal-sized samples of white, black, Asian, and Latino freshmen entering selective colleges and universities.

  Sample Size: 28 institutions. 3924 students (959 Asians, 998 whites, 1,051 African Americans, 916 Latinos).

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997
  Designed to document the transition from school to work and into adulthood. Collects extensive information about youths' labor market behavior and educational experiences over time. Also included is a survey of the biological children of women in the NLSY79. Documentation is available at the NLS site. For comparisons of National Longitudinal Surveys, Survey of Income and Program Participation, and Panel Study of Income Dynamics, see the comparison chart.

  Sample Size: The 1979 survey began with over 12,000 participants, while the 1997 survey began with approx. 9,000.

  Citation:
  National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Ohio State University. Center for Human Resource Research.
  Producer: Ohio State University, Center for Human Resource Research and U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  Distributor: Ohio State University. Center for Human Resource Research.
  

• National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) Series
  Provides information on how postsecondary student financial aid is targeted, received, and used. A significant component of the NPSAS is the Student Loan Recipient Transcript Survey, which collected postsecondary-school transcripts for Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) recipients who were surveyed in the Student Loan Recipient Survey (SLRS). ICPSR has only the 1987 data. For more recent years, the DAS system at the National Center for Education Statistics allows limited online analysis. Access to the full data sets is restricted and application must be made through NCES.

  Citation:
  National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) Series (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
  Producer: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  Distributor: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research; U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  

• National Survey of Latinos (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007)
  Surveys among the Latino community with themes each year (immigration, politcs and civil participation, education).

  Sample Size: Nationally representative samples of Latino respondents ages 18 and older.

• National Survey of Youth and Religion (NSYR)
  Nationally representative telephone survey of 3,290 English & Spanish-speaking teenagers between the ages of 13-17, and their parents. Also includes 80 oversampled Jewish households, not nationally representative, bringing the total number of completed cases to 3,370. Purpose is to research the shape & influence of religion & spirituality in the lives of American youth; to identify effective practices in the religious, moral, and social formation of the lives of youth; to describe the extent & perceived effectiveness of the programs & opportunities that religious communities are offering to their youth; and to foster an informed national discussion about the influence of religion in youth's lives, in order to encourage sustained reflection about and rethinking of our cultural and institutional practices with regard to youth & religion. The 2nd wave was designed to be a re-interview of all Wave 1 youth survey respondents. Parents of the youth respondents were not re-interviewed. At the time of the 2nd survey, respondents were between the ages of 16-21. Conducted from June 9-November 24, 2005. 2nd wave interviews were conducted only in English. Four youth respondents did not participate in the Wave 2 interview due to not being able to understand or speak English. Wave 2 covers many of the same topics as Wave 1. Many of the questions are identical. However, Wave 2 was re-designed to take into account changes in the lives of the respondents as they began to enter young adulthood. Wave 2 included new questions pertaining to behaviors occurring during the transition to adulthood, such as non-marital cohabitation, educational and career aspirations, pregnancy and marriage. In Wave 3 every attempt was made to re-interview all English-speaking Wave 1 youth survey respondents. At the time of the 3rd survey, respondents were between the ages of 18-24. Conducted from September 24, 2007-April 21, 2008. Wave 3 replicated many of the questions asked in Waves 1 & 2 with some changes made to better capture the respondents' lives as they grew older. For example, there were fewer questions on parental monitoring and more on post-high school educational aspirations.

• New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, 1991+
  Conducted approximately every 3 years to comply with New York state and New York City's rent regulation laws. The Census Bureau has conducted the survey for the city since 1965. The rental vacancy rate is the primary focus of the survey, because that value is crucial to the current rent control and rent stabilization laws. Other important survey data include rent regulation status, number of stories, number of units in building, number of rooms in unit, type of heating fuel, monthly rent, estimated value and building condition. Also includes information concerning housing and neighborhood quality. Although the main purpose of the survey is to collect housing data, information on the demographic status of the population and households of the city is also collected. Information collected includes age, sex, race, ethnicity, household composition, labor force status, income, employment, and education level. 1991, 1993, and 1996 are available at the DSS site. For 1999, 2002, and 2005, see the Census Bureau.

  Sample Size: Approximately 18,000 housing units representing the 5 boroughs of the city.

• Office for Civil Rights Surveys (1968-1974, 1994)
  Examined issues of school desegregation. Contains data on racial and ethnic composition of students and staff for each academic year in selected school districts. The 1994 Civil Rights Compliance Report also collected data from selected school districts and schools within each selected district.

• Private School Universe Survey (PSS) (1976-1980, 1985-1986, 1989-2006)
  Provides information on private elementary and secondary schools in the United States. Data are provided on the type and location of school, school's religious affiliation status, enrollment, grade levels, teachers, students, and school graduates. ICPSR has 1976-1980, 1985-1986.

• Recent College Graduates (RCG)
  Occupational outcomes and educational experiences of bachelor's and master's degree recipients who graduated from colleges and universities in the continental United States. The survey was taken during the 1985-86 academic year and again during the 1989-90 academic year.

• Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) (1987+)
  Integrated sample survey of public and private schools, school districts, and principals and teachers. The 2000-01 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) is available through DSS.

• Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (1993-1999, 2003)
  In addition to SESTAT, a comprehensive and integrated system of information about the employment, educational, and demographic characteristics of scientists and engineers, this site also makes available several surveys of recipients of higher education. They include:
  
  • National Survey of Recent College Graduates (2001, 2003)
  • Survey of Doctorate Recipients (2001, 2003 )
  • National Survey of College Graduates (1993, 2003)

• Social, Demographic and Educational Data for France, 1801-1897
  Consists of 161 selected social, demographic, and educational datasets for France in the period 1801-1897. The data were collected from published reports of three national statistical series: (1) National Censuses, (2) Vital Statistics, and (3) Primary Education.

• Socioeconomic Survey of Twins
  These data were collected by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania with the assistance of a registry of all twins born in Minnesota between 1936-55. A questionnaire was mailed out to twins in the registry starting in May 1994. Questions cover education, family status, health, and jobs held.

  Sample Size: 3682

  Citation:
  Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Jere R. Behrman, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and Paul Taubman
  

• Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies [United States] Series
  In 1995, to determine the nature of law enforcement services provided on campus, the Bureau of Justice Statistics surveyed 4-year institutions of higher education in the United States with 2,500 or more students. Describes nearly 600 of these campus law enforcement agencies in terms of their personnel, expenditures and pay, operations, equipment, computers and information systems, policies, and special programs. Based on the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics) program, which collected similar data from a national sample of state and local law enforcement agencies. A follow-up was conducted in 2004/2005.

• Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
  Provides data on the number and characteristics of students in graduate science and engineering and health-related fields enrolled in U.S. institutions. Assesses trends in financial support patterns and shifts in graduate enrollment and postdoctoral appointments.

• Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project (THEOP)
  Multi-year study that investigates college planning and enrollment behavior under a policy that guarantees admission to any Texas public college or university to high school seniors who graduate in the top decile of their class.

• Time, Love, and Cash in Couples With Children Study (TLC3) [United States], 2000-2005
  Consists of complete transcriptions of 4 waves of individual and couple interviews with parents who experienced a birth in 2000, with over-sampling for nonmarital births. Both mothers and fathers participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews both individually and as a couple in each of the four waves.

  Sample Size: 756 interviews. Sample is embedded in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Participants were chosen based on a stratified, random sampling scheme from Chicago, New York, and Milwaukee. Nonmarital births were oversampled.

• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (1995+)
  Provides reliable and timely data on the mathematics and science achievement of U.S. 4th- and 8th-grade students compared to that of students in other countries. Collected in 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. Next round of collection will be in 2011.

• Violence, Vandalism And Substance Abuse In New Jersey Schools (1999+)
  Data down to the school district level.

• Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study (1999+)
  Intensive study in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio to assess the well-being of low-income children and families in the post-welfare reform era. Investigates the strategies families have used to respond to reform, in terms of employment, schooling or other forms of training, residential mobility, and fertility. Central to this project is a focus on how these strategies affect children's lives, with an emphasis on their health and development as well as their need for, and use of, social services.