Educational Statistics and Data

Analytic Studies - California State University

This site contains data and statistics dealing with California high schools and entrants into the California State University System.

Barro-Lee data

This data set includes cross-country panel data on output and educational inputs and outputs.

Digest of Educational Statistics 1990-present (in Adobe pdf format)

The online edition of this basic source of educational statistics.

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study consists of two sets of panel data: one that follows a sample of children from birth to age 6 and a second that follows children from kindergarten through elementary school. An extensive collection of family background variables are included in these surveys.

German Socio-Economic Panel

The German Socio-Economic Panel contains longitudinal data on over 12,000 households, beginning with a 1983 base year. Data is available in SPSS, SAS, Stata, and ASCII formats. (Stata, in particular, now has an SOEP menu command available that allows the user "directly to select variables, observations, etc., and automatically create data retrievals on your computer." When a variable is selected, all years of data are imported.)

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

This data set contains information on over 11,000 postsecondary institutions. Data on enrollments, tuition and fees, faculty salaries, library assets, and staffing levels are provided in this data collection.

International Archive of Educational Data

This site, provided by ICPSR contains a useful collection of downloadable datasets.

School District Demographics from the 2000 Census.

Find the demographic statistics for local school districts using data provided by the National Center for Educational Statistics.

Milwaukee Parental Choice Program data

The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program provides educational vouchers to low-income children who attend private nonsectarian schools. (The amount of the payment is equal to the amount of state aid per pupil provided to public schools.) This site contains data on this program.

National Center for Educational Statistics

Information about the data collections of the National Center for Educational Statistics is available at this site. Numerous data sets may be downloaded (or ordered) from this site.

National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health)

This data collection is a longitudinal survey of adolescents who were enrolled in grades 7 through 12 in 1994. The data was collected at individual, family, school, and community levels.

National Longitudinal Surveys

This web site contains links to the data and codebooks for:

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)
• NLSY79 Children and Young Adults
• National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Mature Women (NLSW)
• National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and Older Men

National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972

The National Longitudinal Survey of the High School class of 1972 provides a rich data set on a large sample of individuals who were high school seniors in 1972. Many of these individuals were followed up in five subsequent follow-up surveys, ending in 1986. Information on ordering the CD containing the data is available through this site.

Private School Review

This site provides information on private schools located within U.S. counties. It also provides, for each county, information on county and state income levels, home ownership/rental proportions, average family size, housing prices, and other demographic statistics.

New York State Education Department

At this site, the NY State Education Department will publish information on tests scores, regents diplomas, attendance, and droput rate statistics for each school district in the state.

Wisconsin Children, Incomes, and Program Participation Survey (CHIPPS) of 1985

The Data and Program Library Service at the University of Winsonsin-Madison, provides downloadable data and documentation from this study of support services for children.

Wisconsin Learnfare Program data

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of Wisconsin's Learnfare program in which welfare benefits were reduced if students in the household failed to meet attendance requirements. A control group that was not part of the experiment constitutes 50% of the sample.