DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06933
title: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall Enrollment Analysis, 1993
title: Archival Version

description: The purpose of this data collection was to provide a more
 accurate measure of the racial/ethnic enrollment in postsecondary
 institutions in the United States than was previously available. The
 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects racial/ethnic
 enrollment data from higher education institutions on an annual
 basis. Some institutions do not report these data, and their
 "unknown" categories have previously been distributed in direct
 proportion to the "knowns." This resulted in lower than accurate
 figures for the racial/ethnic categories. With the advent of the
 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), NCES has
 attempted to eliminate this problem by distributing all race/ethnicity
 unknown students through a two-stage process. First, the differences
 between reported totals and racial/ethnic details were allocated on a
 gender and institutional basis by distributing the differences in
 direct proportion to reported distributions. The second-stage
 distribution was designed to eliminate the remaining
 "race/ethnicity" unknowns. The procedure was to accumulate the
 reported racial/ethnic total enrollments by state, level, control, and
 gender, calculate the percentage distributions, and apply these
 percentages to the reported total enrollments of institutional
 respondents (in the same state, level, and control) that did not
 supply race/ethnicity detail. In addition, the original "race
 unknown" data were also left unaltered for those who wish to review
 numbers actually distributed. The racial/ethnic status was broken down
 into nonresident alien, Black non-Hispanic, American Indian or Alaskan
 Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and White
 non-Hispanic. There are four data files. Part 1, Institutional
 Characteristics, includes variables on control and level of
 institution, religious affiliation, highest level of offering,
 Carnegie classification, and state FIPS codes and abbreviation. Part 2
 covers Enrollment Data by Race/Ethnicity and Sex and by Level and Year
 of Study, while the focus of Part 3 is Enrollment Data by Age
 Categories and by Sex and Level of Student. Part 4, Clarifying
 Questions on Enrollments, provides information on students enrolled in
 remedial courses, extension divisions, and branches of schools, and
 numbers of transfer students from in-state, out-of-state, and other
countries.
description: All two-year and over postsecondary institutions were included 
 along with a probability-of-selection sample of all less than 
two-year private institutions.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Institutional Characteristics (EF93_IC.DAT)
DS2: Enrollment Data by Race/Ethnicity and Sex and by Level and Year of Study (EF93_A.DAT)
DS3: Enrollment Data by Age and by Sex and Level of Student (EF93_B.DAT)
DS4: Clarifying Questions on Enrollments (EF93_D.DAT)
description: All postsecondary institutions in operation in 1993 in the 
United States and its outlying areas.
description: The codebook and data collection instruments are provided as
 Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was
 developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using the
 Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the
 Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the
Internet.