The NES was the first national, representative survey of employers to capture the interaction of employment and education issues from an establishment perspective. The findings and opinions expressed by NCPI and CPRE do not reflect the position or policies of OERI or the U.S. Department of Education. The findings and opinions expressed here do not reflect the position or policies of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. To date, attempts to gauge the actual extent to which employer participation has met or surpassed these benchmarks have reflected the reports of school officials and agency personnel rather than from employers themselves making it difficult to draw a national and broadly based picture of the scale of employer involvement.
Real involvement stretches across all industries and all establishment sizes.
In the summer of 1997, the NES-II was administered as a telephone survey by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The Bureau contacted 6,971 private establishments with over 20 employees. The response rate including complete and partial responses was 78 percent. The surveys are identical and differ only linguistically in places where these sectors use different terms to describe comparable aspects of their businesses. The rates reported in the graphs and tables are weighted to be representative for all U.S. establishments with more than 20 employees in the industries included in the sample.