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New education data from OERI. -- Jim

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Jim Cassell                                    CASSELL@UNCVM1.OIT.UNC.EDU
Institute for Research in Social Science       CASSELL@UNCVM1.BITNET
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill       Phone:  919-962-0782
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3355                    Fax:    919-962-4777
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The following is provided by The Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.


                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
         OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT

                          OERI BULLETIN

                            FALL 1992


NEW DATA ON TAPE AND DISK

For more information about any data set, including data
descriptions, electronic formats, availability of user's manuals,
order forms, and prices, write Data Systems Branch, OERI, 555 New
Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC  20208-5725. Please include the
announcement number at the end of each entry.

Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education, FY 90,
is an imputed tape for the Integrated Postsecondary Education
Data System (IPEDS) with detailed information on current
<{revenues, expenditures, and scholarships/fellowships expenditures
of the 3,617 4-year, 2-year, and less-than-2-year schools of the
IPEDS higher education subset institutions in operation in FY
1990. NCES 92-037.

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1990 Science
and Reading  Almanacs contain computer-generated tables on a
nationally representative sample of 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade
students at public and private schools.  They include information
on the performance of students in science or reading based on
background questionnaires administered to students, principals,
or school administrators, and 8th-grade students' science
teachers. Data are cross-tabulated by key variables, including
race/ethnicity, language spoken at home, parental education,
homework, courses taken, student views, teachers' experience and
training, and student demographics. The almanacs are on IBM-
compatible diskettes, and the files can be imported into word
processor programs. NCES 92-105.

Public Libraries, 1990, includes data on nearly 9,000 public
libraries in all 50 states and DC, including the name, address,
telephone number, population of legal service area, number and
type of service outlets and staff, amount and source of income,
operating expenditures, size of collection, total annual public
service hours, attendance, reference transactions, circulation,
and interlibrary loans. NCES 92-046.

Public School Universe, 1990-91, provides information as of fall
1991 on approximately 86,000 public elementary and secondary
schools in the 50 states, DC, and five outlying areas.
Information collected by the states include: name, address, phone
number, grade span, and codes for type of school and relative
urbanicity. In most cases, the tape includes counts of students
by grade, racial/ethnic categories, eligibility for the
free-lunch program, and the number of full-time-equivalent
teachers. NCES 92-036.

CD-ROMs.  Three data sets were previously released on CD-ROM.
They are all available from GPO, Government Printing Office,
Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA
15250-7954  for $23 a disk. The data sets are:

o    High School and Beyond for the base year, and the 1982,
     1984, and 1986 follow-up surveys (stock #065-000-00470-4);

o    National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) for 1987-88
     (stock #065-000-00471-2); and

o    NPSAS for 1989-90, which is just a table generation system
     (stock #065-000-00472-1)

A new CD-ROM was just released for the Schools and Staffing
Survey of 1987-88. See page 3 for details.