ED's public data listing in web format, per President Obama's 2013 executive order making open and machine-readable data the new default for government information.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. As such there are a number of longitudinal studies available on the NCES web site as well as at ICPSR.
Describes data reported to the US Department of Education as part of grant activities, along with administrative and statistical data assembled and maintained by the Department.
Annual, national statistical database of information about public elementary and secondary schools (e.g., enrollment by grade, student characteristics, number of teachers) and school districts (e.g., number of students, number of high school graduates in the previous year).
The Elementary/Secondary Information System (ElSi) is an NCES web application that allows users to quickly view public and private school data and create custom tables and charts using data from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and Private School Survey (PSS).
The Education Data Explorer harmonizes data from all major federal datasets, including the US Department of Education Common Core of Data, the US Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection, the US Department of Education EDFacts, the US Census Bureau Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the US Department of Education Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the US Department of Education College Scorecard, and the National Historical Geographic Information System. Allows you to search for a single school, school district, or college or to compare several schools, districts, or colleges across various data points.
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) was conducted by NCES seven times between 1987 through 2011.A survey of the characteristics and conditions of America's public and private schools and the teachers and principals who work in them.
The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), the flagship household survey program of the National Center for Education Statistics, collects nationally representative, descriptive data on the educational activities of children and families in the United States. NHES surveys are conducted every three to four years, on various topics. The current NHES topics are early childhood care and education, family involvement in schools, and homeschooling. These data may be used to analyze trends over time. The most recent NHES administration ended in August 2023.
IPEDS is a system of surveys designed to collect data from all primary providers of postsecondary education. Study components include earned degrees/completions, fall enrollment, staff, finance, institutional characteristics, salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits of full-time instructional faculty.
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of some 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed. A number of questions on drug use are asked.
The National Longitudinal Surveys of Child and Youth Adult Data Overview is designed to document the transition from school to work and into adulthood. They collect extensive information about youths' labor market behavior and educational experiences over time.
SESTAT is the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System. SESTAT was established in 1993 and comprised of three workforce surveys from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the U.S. National Science Foundation. This integrated data system is a unique source of longitudinal information on the education and employment of the college-educated U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. It was integrated through 2013.
re3data.org is a comprehensive registry of research data repositories that is global and covers all research disciplines.
You can use re3data to find repositories where you can discover and deposit datasets that support research such as experimental and simulation data; images, sound, and video; surveys and observations; physical samples; laboratory and clinical trial data; software source code; genomic and geospatial data; and more.
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