DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02151
title: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall Enrollment Analysis, 1995
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 instances of
 "race/ethnicity unknown". 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/ethnicity
 unknown" data were also left unaltered for those who wish to review the
 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 five 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 code
 and abbreviation. Variables in Part 2, Reported Enrollment Data by
 Race/Ethnicity, cover total original enrollment data by race/ethnicity
 and sex and by level and year of study of student. Race/ethnicity data
 were not imputed for institutions that only reported total enrollment.
 Part 3, Adjusted Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity, includes summary enrollment
 data by adjusted race/ethnicity and sex of student and by level and year
 of study of student. The "race/ethnicity unknown" category data were
 distributed across all known race categories in this file. Also, race 
 data were imputed for institutions that did not report enrollment by race.
 Part 4, Enrollment Data by Age Categories and by Level and Sex of
 Student, includes enrollment data by age categories and by level and sex
 of student. Part 5, 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
DS2: Original Enrollment Data by Race/Ethnicity and Sex and by Level and Year of Study
DS3: Adjusted Enrollment Data by Race/Ethnicity and Sex and by Level and Year of Study
DS4: Enrollment Data by Age Categories and by Level and Sex of Student
DS5: Clarifying Questions on Enrollments
description: All postsecondary institutions in operation in 1995 in the 
United States and its outlying areas.
description: The codebook and data collection instruments are provided as
 a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
 developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using 
 PDF reader software, such as the
 Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the
 Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the
Internet.