DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36954.v1
title: Community College Civic Outcomes Survey, Spring 2016
title: Version 1

description: The Community College Civic Outcomes Survey, Spring 2016 study examines the individual and institutional factors associated with greater civic agency, capacity, behavior, and knowledge among college students. In Spring 2016, two surveys were digitally administered at 13 community colleges, or community college systems. These colleges were purposively selected for diversity in terms of geography, campus setting, size, and the racial and ethnic composition of their student bodies. This data includes a sample of 1,693 surveys from those collected. The Civic Outcomes Survey (COS) was administered to students, and included questions related to voting, political and community engagement, civic knowledge, and leadership development. The Institutional Questionnaire (IQ), was admitted to each college's liaisons to The Democracy Commitment (TDC), and included questions related to college-level factors known to influence student engagement. These questions assessed for institutional intentionality towards civic engagement through college missions and strategic planning, as well as academic and faculty focus on civic involvement. Both instruments were previously tested in a small regional pilot and were subsequently refined to allow for greater response variability. Demographic variables include race, income, gender, and enrollment status.
description: This study was conducted to better understand the extent and ways in which community colleges develop the civic capacities of their students. The research questions guiding this study were:

Holding pre-college civic behaviors constant, what individual behaviors and characteristics are associated with greater civic agency, capacity, behavior, and knowledge among students with at least one year of community college experience?; 
Holding individual characteristics and behaviors constant, what institutional programs, policies, or characteristics are associated with greater civic agency, capacity, behavior, and knowledge among students with at least one year of community college experience?;
description: The data contains 118 variables.
75 variables are from the Civic Outcomes Survey (COS), and 43 variables are from the Institutional questionnaire (IQ).
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of 
				disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major 
				statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to 
				these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
			   		Performed consistency checks.; Created online analysis version with question text..
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS1: Community College Civic Outcomes Survey, Spring 2016
description: Community College Civic Outcomes Surveys Series
description: web-based survey
description: Community College Students
description: Each participating institution gained approval through their own Institutional Review Board. The purposively-selected institutions were geographically diverse, representing a variety of urban, suburban, and rural environments (as identified by the Carnegie Classifications), and ranged in size. The racial/ethnic composition of students at the colleges also varied substantially.