Education Data and Statistics on the web
Elana Broch
Stokes Library
Princeton University
(ebroch@princeton.edu)
Basics NCES Census
Bureau Non-Governmental
Special Topics (Academic Libraries, College rankings, educational attainment, financial aid, historical, international, NCLB, post-secondary salary data)
The Basics (always
a good place to start)
Statistical Abstract
Almanac of American
Education compilation of statistics
including NCES; published by
Bernan (most recent issue is 2006)
National Center for Education Statistics at Department of Education (NCES) Many programs, from preschool through postsecondary. The sitemap can give you an overview. Table 1 contains a summary of the major surveys and the data that is collected. Online publications (including many annual reports going back to 1991) can be searched at http://nces.ed.gov/pubSearch/. These include, but are not limited to
Condition of Education from NCES
Digest of
Education Statistics from NCES (in print in Social Science Reference Center at
Firestone Library back to 1973; L112 .xD5). Online versions available back
to 1991
Other
widely-used programs available on the NCES website include
- Common
Core of Data
- IPEDS (The Integrated
Postsecondary Education Data System)
- NAEP (National Assessment
of Educational Progress) Nation’s Report Card
- With the
discontinuation of the long form in the Decennial Census, there will be no
education information from the 2010 Census. Educational Attainment data from the
1940 to 2000 Decennial Censuses are available. School enrollment data from 1940 to
2000
is also available.
- Current Educational Attainment and School Enrollment data are collected annually in the October Current Population Survey (CPS)
- Educational Attainment
and School Enrollment data are collected in
the American
Community Survey (ACS). The ACS also provides school district
level data (by choosing school district as a geographic type).
- Think
Tanks
- Urban
Institute Education Policy Center
- Rand
Education
- Pew
Charitable Trusts (Including student debt data)
- National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education
- Brookings
Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy
- University
Related
- List
of Colleges, Universities, and Community Colleges mainted
by the University of Texas, Austin
- ICPSR (Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research
- Princeton’s Social
Science Reference Center’s
Data and Statistical Services at Princeton
- Newspapers
o
EPE
Research Center (by the publishers of Education Week). Primarily K-12,
including public school salaries)
- College
Board (SAT, Advanced Placement,
student financing of higher ed)
Special Topics
- Academic Libraries
- Alternating
years in IPEDS
- Academic
Library Statistics from the Association of College & Research
Libraries (subscription required)
- College
Rankings
- Educational
Attainment from the Census Bureau. Note: No
education data in 2010 Decennial Census with discontinuation of “long
form”
- Financial
Aid
- College
Board’s “Trends in College Pricing” and “Trends in
Student Aid”
- NCES’ Digest
of Education Statistics section “Student Charges and Student Financial
Assistance”
- Historical
Education questions go back to Census of 1840 although the questions have changed over time, as the focus as changed from assessing the literacy rate of the population to questions of educational attainment. Education questions were eliminated in the 2010 Decennial census with the discontinuation of the “long form.” - Historical Census
Statistics on Educational Attainment from the decennial census, 1940 TO
2000
- Education
essay from Historical Statistics of the United States
Millennial Edition (Subscription required)
- 120
Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait published
by NCES
- State Comparisons of Education Statistics: 1969-70
to 1996-97 published by NCES
- For
raw data and maps, try the University
of Virginia’s Library’s Geospatial and
Statistical Data Center.
- International
(fyi, ISCED=International
Standard Classification of Education)
- International Activities
Program of NCES
- OECD
iLibrary Education Statistics and PISA (Programme
for International Student Assessment)
- UNESCO
- European
Union
- International Archive
of Education Data[1]
- No
Child Left Behind (Beginning in
2005-06, states are required to test all students annually in grades 3-8
in mathematics and reading or language arts.)
- PUBLIC LAW
107–110 authorizing NCLB (JAN. 8, 2002)
- Ed
Data Express (U.S. Dept of Education)
- Education
Commission of the States and NCLB
- Post-secondary
Salary Data
Contact
the Education Librarian, Elana Broch
Last
updated August 31, 2011