Education Data

Data Collections

• National Center for Education Statistics The NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.
• NCES Surveys and Programs This page lists all NCES Survey/Program groups.
• NCES Data Search Tools: These tools from the National Center for Education Statistics give you online access to information from multiple NCES data sources.
• International Archive of Education Data The Archive acquires, processes, documents, and disseminates data collected by national, state or provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels of education in countries for which data can be made available.
• Kids Count A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S.
• Census Data Online compiled indicators of child well-being released by the 2000 U.S. Census. View data on Age and Sex, Race, Hispanic Origin, Living Arrangements, Income and Poverty, Employment, Education, Language, and Disability Status.
• Right Start The measures tracked in The Right Start are intended to provide policymakers and others with data that reflect conditions prior to birth; a newbornÆs health status at birth; and maternal characteristics that are associated with a child's poor educational and social outcomes.
• CLIKS: County-City-Community Level Information on Kids This website brings together data on the well-being of children collected by KIDS COUNT grantees from state and local sources. The unique system allows users to access state-specific inventories of data from local sources, such as health departments, human services agencies, and schools. The content of state pages is determined by participating KIDS COUNT partners using data from local jurisdictions.

Educational Surveys and Programs

School-Level Data

• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) NCES has established the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as its core postsecondary education data collection program (prior to IPEDS some of the same information was collected by the Higher Education General Information Survey-HEGIS). It is a single, comprehensive system that encompasses all identified institutions whose primary purpose is to provide postsecondary education.
• Common Core of Data: A comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of information concerning all public elementary and secondary schools (approximately 95,000) and school districts (approximately 17,000).
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): Also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.

Multi-Level Data (Individual, School, etc)

• National Education Longitudinal Survey: A nationally representative sample of eighth-graders were first surveyed in the spring of 1988. A sample of these respondents were then resurveyed through four follow-ups in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2000. To further enrich the data, students' teachers, parents, and school administrators were also surveyed. The NELS CD is available for use in the Geographic and Statistical Information Center on the third floor of Bird Library
• Education Longitudinal Study of 2002: A longitudinal survey that will monitor the transitions of a national sample of young people as they progress from tenth grade to, eventually, the world of work.
• High School and Beyond: Includes two cohorts: the 1980 senior class, and the 1980 sophomore class. Both cohorts were surveyed every two years through 1986, and the 1980 sophomore class was also surveyed again in 1992.
• National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) is the grandmother of the longitudinal studies designed and conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education. Participants in the study were selected when they were seniors in high school in the spring of 1972, and in a supplementary sample drawn in 1973. The records include the "Base Year" survey; follow-up surveys in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, and 1986; high school records; and postsecondary transcripts (collected in 1984).
• National Longitudinal Surveys: "A set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women."
• National Household Education Surveys: Provide descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population. The surveys cover learning at all ages, from early childhood to school age to adulthood.
• Current Population Survey (October Supplement) Since the late 1960s, NCES has funded a supplement for the Current Population Survey. The October Supplement routinely gathers data on school enrollment and educational attainment for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education. Different sets of questions have been asked over the years including computer use and tuition.
• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. Survey data were collected from the original respondents or their parents in 1957, 1964, 1975, and 1992 and from a selected sibling in 1977 and 1994. The National Institute on Aging is supporting a new wave of interviews with graduates, siblings, spouses, and widows during 2003-2004.

School Vouchers

• Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: "The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program dataset was collected as part of annual evaluations of the Milwaukee Parental Choice [pilot] Program. The research program began in the fall of 1990 and continued to 1995. The program was designed to provide opportunities for poor students in Milwaukee Public Schools. In lieu of tuition, the State of Wisconsin paid the private schools what the Milwaukee Public Schools would have received in state aid for each student. The program is the first in the United States to provide major subsidies to private schools as part of a general voucher program."

International

• OECD Education Database provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems. OECD Member countries co-operate to gather the information, to develop and apply common definitions and criteria for the quality control of the data, to verify the data and to provide the information necessary to interpret the submitted data.
• International Archive of Education Data (IAED)The Archive acquires, processes, documents, and disseminates data collected by national, state or provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels of education in countries for which data can be made available.