DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02213.v1
title: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Consolidated Survey Form, 1990
title: Version 1

description: The consolidated (CN) survey form was used for the first
 time in 1990-1991 to collect information from a subset of the 10,500
 postsecondary institutions in the Integrated Postsecondary Education
 Data System (IPEDS) universe. IPEDS collects information on such
 topics as institutional characteristics, enrollments, completions,
 finance, staff, and libraries. All schools in the IPEDS universe were
 asked to complete an institutional characteristics form. Approximately
 3,600 institutions of higher education (i.e., those that are
 accredited at the college level by an agency recognized by the
 Secretary, United States Department of Education) plus another 400
 nonaccredited schools that grant a bachelor's, master's, doctoral, or
 first-professional degree were asked to complete the full complement
 of IPEDS surveys. Of the remaining 6,500 postsecondary schools who
 were eligible to receive the Consolidated (CN) survey form, 2,998
 schools were sent the form, of which 2,472 responded. The following
 data were requested from institutions using the CN survey form: (1)
 fall enrollment for 1990, by racial/ethnic category and sex of
 student, (2) completions for the 1989-1990 academic year, by field of
 study and award level and by racial/ethnic category and sex of
 recipient, (3) financial statistics for fiscal year 1990, including
 revenue/tuition fees, expenditures/scholarship, and other
 expenditures, and (4) selected data on libraries on total FTE staff,
 operating expenses, and total circulation transactions. The single CN
 form was substituted for the four more detailed IPEDS surveys that
 were sent to the accredited/degree-granting institutions. Data for the
 CN respondent institutions appear on both the CN file and on the
 individual IPEDS adapt files for the fall enrollment, completions,
finance, and libraries surveys.
description: Response Rates: 94.8 percent
description: inap.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Consolidated Survey Form, 1990
description: Nonaccredited postsecondary institutions in the United
States.
description: (1) This was the first time the consolidated survey
 form was used for nonaccredited institutions offering awards other
 than a bachelor's, master's, doctoral, or first-professional degree.
 Information collected from these institutions is less detailed than
 information collected from other IPEDS respondents. The collection
 contains data for 91 four-year institutions, 1,046 two-year schools,
 and 1,335 less-than-two-year institutions. (2) This study is a card
 image file with multiple (varying) records per case. Each school is
 represented multiple times in the file depending upon how many parts
 they completed (A-D) and the types of student information they
 provided (e.g., separate records for full and part-time). (3) 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.