DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02397.v1
title: Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) [United States]: Freshman Survey, 1967
title: Version 1

description: The principal purposes of this national longitudinal study
 of the higher education system in the United States are to describe
 the characteristics of new college freshmen and to explore the effects
 of college on students. For each wave of this survey, each student
 completes a questionnaire during freshman orientation or registration
 containing some 200 items covering information on academic skills and
 preparation, high school activities and experiences, educational and
 career plans, majors and careers, student values, financing college,
 and a variety of demographic questions such as sex, age, parental
 education and occupation, household income, race, religious
 preference, and state of birth. Specific questions asked of
 respondents in the 1967 survey included average grade in secondary
 school, how many colleges they had applied to for admission,
 accomplishments during their high school years, highest academic
 degree they intended to obtain, concerns about financing their
 education, if they were a twin, source of financing for the first year
 of school, dating patterns, number of close friends, which academic
 and athletic activities they performed competently, and what they
 hoped to accomplish in college. Respondents were also asked to list
 their probable career occupation, first, second, and least appealing
 major field of study, and activities they engaged in during their
 previous year in school. Also elicited were respondents' opinions on
 the importance of various individuals and events in their decision to
 enroll in college, assessments of achieving certain goals during their
 college years, and general attitudes about faculty and other
students.
description: Approximately 15 percent of all institutions of higher
education were sampled.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) [United States]: Freshman Survey, 1967
description: All institutions of higher education with entering
 freshman classes listed in the fall enrollment files of the Higher
 Education General Information Survey/Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (HEGIS/IPEDS) data collections.
description: (1) For information on research methodology and
 weighting, users should consult specific editions of "The American
 Freshman," a report produced annually by the Graduate School of
 Education, University of California, Los Angeles. The 1991 edition of
 this report provides the following summary: "The institutions
 identified as part of the national population are divided into 37
 stratification groups based on institutional race (predominantly white
 vs. predominantly black), type (two-year college, four-year college,
 university), control (public, private nonsectarian, Roman Catholic and
 Protestant) and, for four-year colleges and universities, the
 'selectivity level' of the institution (for two-year colleges,
 enrollment is used in place of selectivity). Selectivity, defined as
 the average composite SAT score of the entering class, was made an
 integral part of the stratification design in 1968, and was revised
 and updated in 1975... Those institutions identified as being part of
 the Norms [national] sample are then weighted by a two-step
 procedure. In the first step, the counts of male and female FTFT
 [first-time full-time] population for each institution are divided by
 that institution's male and female FTFT respondent count. The
 resulting weights, when applied, bring the male and female respondent
 counts up to the corresponding counts for the population of that
 institution. The weighted counts for all participating institutions in
 each stratification cell are then summed, and divided into the
 national male and female FTFT counts for all institutions in that
 stratification cell. The resulting between-institution weights bring
 the male and female counts for each stratification cell up to the
 corresponding national counts for that stratification cell." (2) The
 codebook is provided by ICPSR 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 on the ICPSR Web site.