Education Statistics on the Web

Elana Broch
Stokes Library
Princeton University

Basics   NCES   Census    Non-Governmental  Special Topics

The Basics
        Statistical Abstract                  

Almanac of American Education compilation of statistics including NCES; published by Bernan
Condition of Education from NCES
Digest of Education Statistics from NCES (in print in Social Science Reference Center at Firestone Library back to 1964; L112 .xD5)
                            

National Center for Education Statistics at Department of Education  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. The most widely-used programs include

• Common Core of Data
  • Public School District Finance Peer Search
• IPEDS (The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System)
  • IPEDS Survey Questions
  • Peer Analysis Tool for selecting “comparable” schools (either by name or based on characteristics).
  • Data Cutting Tool produces results online or CSV; or SAS-, SPSS-, or STATA-ready format.
• NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)—Nation’s Report Card
• National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)

Census Bureau

• School Enrollment data are collected annually in the October Current Population Survey (CPS)
• “Educational Attainment data are collected annually in the Current Population Survey (CPS) and reported every March for the Nation, with limited detail for states and some metropolitan areas”
• Financing Post-secondary Education via SIPP
  

Non-Governmental

• Think Tanks
  • Urban Institute Education Policy Center
    • Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (Calder)--New
  • Rand Education
  • Pew Charitable Trusts' National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education
  • Brookings Institution
• 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
  • Social Science Reference Center’s Data and Statistical Services at Princeton
• Newspapers
  • Chronicle of Higher Education's Almanac of Higher Ed and Executive Compensation
  • Education Week (K-12, including public school salaries)
• College Board (SAT, Advanced Placement, student financing of higher ed)

• Academic Libraries
  • Alternating years in IPEDS
  • Academic Library Statistics from the Association of College & Research Libraries
• College Rankings
  • College and University Rankings webpage from the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
• Educational Attainment from the Census Bureau
  • March CPS (Annual) and the Decennial Census (scroll down for Decennial information)
• Financial Aid
  • College Board (Trends in College Pricing 2005 and Trends in Student Aid 2005)
  • See Digest of Education Statistics
• 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. 
  • Historical Census Statistics on Educational Attainment from the decennial census, 1940 TO 2000
  • Education essay from Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition
  • 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait 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)
  • SourceOECD education stat (Education at at Glance) 
  • UNESCO
  • Eurostat Yearbook (Education is part of “People in Europe”)
  • International Archive of Education Data
• 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.)
  • Ed.gov
  • Education Commission of the States
    • NCLB Highly Qualified Teacher and Paraprofessional Database
      
• Salary Data
  • IPEDS
  • AAUP via Chronicle of Higher Education

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