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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:52:00 CST
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Subject:      OERI: Directory of Data Files (450 lines)

The following is provided by The Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.


                               1992 Supplement

                                    to the

                              1991 OERI Directory

                                      of

                              Computer Data Files


                             (as of October 16, 1992)


                           New Available Data Files

Updates

Elementary and Secondary Education


 1.  Survey Area:        Public School Districts

     Years Available:    1990-91

     Description:        Please see Elementary and
                         Secondary Education of the previous
                         edition of the Directory.  Most
                         variables on this file are also
                         available on diskettes.  Please
                         see pricing.


 2.  Survey Area:        Public School Universe

     Years Available:    1990-91

     Description:        Please see Elementary and
                         Secondary Education of the previous
                         edition of the Directory.  Most
                         variables on this file are also
                         available on diskettes.  Please
                         see  pricing.


 3.  Survey Area:        State Summary of School
                         District Finance

     Years Available:    1989
                         1990

     Description:        Please see Elementary and
                         Secondary Education of the previous
                         edition of the Directory.  Fiscal
                         years 1989 and 1990 are on the
                         same file.  These two years are
                         also available on a diskette for
                         $75.


 4.  Survey Area:        State Summary of Non-Fiscal Data

     Years Available:    1983-84 through 1990-91

     Description:        Please see Elementary and
                         Secondary Education of the previous
                         edition of the Directory.  This
                         file contains information for
                         school years 1983-84 through 1990-
                         91.  These eight years are also
                         available on a diskette for $75.


 5.  Survey Area:        Schools and Staffing Survey
                         (Teacher Followup Survey

     Years Available:    1987-88 and 1988-89 followup


     Description:        Please see Elementary and Secondary
                         Education of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.  This file is a followup
                         of the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing
                         Survey (SASS) teacher sample.
                         It was conducted by the U. S. Bureau
                         of the Census to update data on teacher
                         career patterns and plans.  The TFS is a
                         subsample (6,763 respondents) of
                         public and private school teachers
                         in the profession during school
                         year 1987-88.  Of the 6,763
                         teachers, 4,540 were currently
                         teaching, and 2,223 were former
                         teachers.  Survey data in the
                         1987-88 SASS are included as
                         classification variables for
                         analysis of the TFS data.  In
                         addition to the information
                         provided on the 1987-88 SASS
                         teacher sample, data on teachers'
                         employment and teaching status,
                         educational activities, and future
                         plans are in the TFS.


Postsecondary Education

 1.  Survey Area:        Fall Enrollment

     Years Available:    1990-91

     Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
                         of the previous edition of Directory.
                         Racial/ethnic data for 1990 are
                         included by summary only.
                         Enrollment is provided by year of
                         study (first-time freshmen, other
                         first year, second year, third
                         year, fourth year, and beyond),
                         and by level (undergraduate,
                         graduate, and first-professional)
                         for approximately 6,000
                         postsecondary institutions.


 2.  Survey Area:        Financial Statistics

     Years Available:    1989-90

     Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
                         of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.  The imputed data for FY
                         89 are now available.  The FY 90 data
                         are also imputed, and the file
                         contains finance data for over
                         3,000 institutions of higher education.


 3.  Survey Area:        Faculty Salaries

     Years Available:    1990-91

     Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education of
                         the previous edition of the Directory.
                         This file contains data for
                         approximately 3,600 institutions of
                         higher education.


 4.  Survey Area:        Earned Degrees (Completions)

     Years Available:    1989-90

     Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
                         of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.  This file provides data for
                         over 6,000 postsecondary institutions.


 5.  Survey Area:        Institutional Characteristics

     Years Available:    1991-92

     Description:
                         Please see Postsecondary Education
                         of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.  This file includes
                         information for almost 10,000
                         postsecondary institutions.


 6.  Survey Area:        Fall Staff

     Years Available:    1989

     Description:        Please see Postsecondary Education
                         of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.  This file is the second
                         conducted under IPEDS.  This file
                         provides data for over 5,000
                         postsecondary institutions.

Libraries


 1.  Survey Area         Public Libraries

     Years Available:    1990

     Description:        Please Libraries of the previous
                         edition of the Directory.  The
                         1990 data is only available on
                         diskettes.  The cost for the set
                         is $75.


Longitudinal Studies


 1.  Survey Area:        NLS-72 Postsecondary
                         Education Transcript File

     Years Available:    1972-84

     Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies
                         of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.  This file is a supplementary
                         addendum with revised transcript, term,
                         and course files.

 2.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 Student Data

     Years Available:    1990

     Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies
                         of the previous edition of the
                         Directory.

                         This first followup file contains data
                         from 20,706 individuals.  Data
                         from NELS:88 base-year and first
                         followup can be used in conducting
                         national studies in many areas,
                         including (a) students' academic
                         growth over time, and the family,
                         community, school, and classroom
                         factors that promote or inhibit
                         such growth; (b) the process of
                         dropping out of school, as it
                         occurs from the eighth grade on;
                         (c) school experiences and
                         academic performances of language
                         minority students; and (d)
                         profiling the nation's tenth-
                         graders.


 3.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 School Data

     Years Available:    1990

     Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies of
                         the previous edition of the Directory.
                         This first followup file contains
                         survey data collected in 1990 from
                         1,291 school administrators. This
                         file provides information about
                         the characteristics of the schools
                         attended by 17,633 participating
                         first followup students.  This
                         data is intended to provide
                         contextual information about the
                         school environment of individual
                         students.  It is wide ranging, and
                         includes school programs, teacher
                         qualities and  qualifications,
                         aspects of school problems and
                         climates, student demographics,
                         and school relationships with
                         parents and the community.


 4.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 Teacher Data

     Years Available:    1990

     Description:        Please see Longitudinal Studies of
                         the previous edition of the Directory.
                         The teacher component data file
                         contains questionnaire data
                         collected from 9,987 teachers who
                         were asked to provide four types
                         of information:  (1) their
                         evaluation of the learning and
                         performance of one or more NELS:88
                         participating students; (2)
                         descriptive characteristics of the
                         class/course; (3) their own
                         background characteristics
                         particularly pertinent to
                         teaching; and (4) their
                         assessments of school climate in
                         the NELS:88 school.  Similar to
                         the school component data file,
                         this data file is intended to
                         provide contextual data for
                         analyses that use individual
                         students as the unit of analysis.
                         Each record of this file contains
                         data provided by a teacher for a
                         particular student-teacher pair in
                         a specific subject matter area
                         (e.g., mathematics).  The total
                         number of records is 27,994,
                         representing one to two student-
                         teacher pair records for each of
                         15,908 of the 18,221 students who
                         participated in the NELS:88 First
                         Followup Student Survey.  (NCES
                         plans to have this file available
                         in December 1992.)

New Files


 1.  Survey Area:        Consolidated (CN) Survey Form

     Years Available:    1990

     Description:        This file contains data on basic
                         statistics for the nation's
                         noncollegiate postsecondary
                         institutions for 1990.  The tape
                         contains data for 2,472
                         noncollegiate postsecondary
                         institutions responding to the CN
                         survey.  These schools represent
                         the universe of 6,284 institutions
                         on the IPEDS file that do not
                         qualify as being either 1)
                         accredited at the college level by
                         an agency recognized by the
                         Secretary of the U.S. Department
                         of Education; or 2) not accredited
                         but that grant a bachelor's,
                         master's, doctor's, or first-
                         professional degree.  The file
                         includes information on fall
                         enrollment for 1990, 1989-90
                         completions data, FY 90 financial
                         data, and 1990 library statistics.
                         The 1990 survey year was the first
                         time the CN form was used to
                         collect data from this segment of
                         the IPEDS universe.


 2.  Survey Area:        NELS:88 Dropout Data

     Years Available:    1990

     Description:        The first followup dropout
                         component data file contains
                         questionnaire data collected from
                         1,043 dropouts who left school
                         between the eighth and tenth
                         grades.  Each record contains
                         information (570 variables)
                         collected from dropouts, and
                         covering several areas, including:
                         school experiences and activities;
                         reasons for leaving school;
                         program participation; course-
                         taking patterns; absenteeism;
                         actions taken by the school,
                         parents, and friends in response
                         to a respondent's decision to drop
                         out; the respondent's assessment
                         of the likelihood of returning to,
                         and graduating from high school;
                         experiences after dropping out;
                         current activities and future
                         plans.  (NCES plans to have this
                         file available in November 1992.)


 3.  Survey Area:        National Household Education Survey (**)
                         Component)

     Years Available:    1991

     Description:        Data from the ECE component are
                         provided in two separate, but
                         easily merged files--the
                         Preprimary File and the Primary
                         File.  Altogether, information on
                         13,892 3- to 8-year-old children,
                         obtained from the most
                         knowledgeable parents or
                         guardians, is contained on the
                         files (7,655 on the Preprimary;
                         6,237 on the Primary).  The ECE
                         component is a source of
                         information on child care and
                         early childhood program
                         experiences, kindergarten and
                         primary school entry, retention in
                         early grades, parental involvement
                         in center-based programs and
                         schools, the education environment
                         in the home, and household and
                         family characteristics.


 4.  Survey Area:        National Household Education
                         Component)

     Years Available:    1991

     Description:        The Adult File of the AE component
                         contains information on 12,568
                         persons, 16 years of age and
                         older, not enrolled full time in
                         high school at the time of the
                         interview.  Of these, 9,774 were
                         participants in adult education
                         activities, i.e., had participated
                         in at least one educational
                         activity in the 12 months prior to
                         the interview; 2,794 were
                         nonparticipants.  The AE component
                         covers these topics:
                         participation in adult education
                         activities in the past year, the
                         past three years, and ever;
                         characteristics of adult education
<{                         courses or activities, including:
                         course title, basic skills and
                         training content, degree
                         requirement fulfillment, sponsor,
                         employer involvement, payment
                         source, and others; perceived
                         benefits of participation in adult
                         education for both participants
                         and nonparticipants; perceived
                         barriers to participation in adult
                         education for both part-time
                         participants and nonparticipants;
                         and, background characteristics of
                         participants and nonparticipants.
                         A Course File, structured around
                         reported courses rather than
                         participants, is also provided.


Note: (**) Conducted between late January and early May of 1991,
the 1991 National  Household Education Survey (NHES:91) was a
random digit dial telephone survey of households.  Just over
60,000 households participated in the initial screening interview
of the NHES:91 which covered two topical components:  Early
Childhood Education (ECE) and Adult Education (AE).  Data in each
component have been weight to provide estimates representative
of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United
States.