As an integral part of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) the School Administrator Questionnaire has been used to collect information from public and private school administrators regarding their demographic characteristics, academic background, professional training, and attitudes toward school management issues. The NCES reviewed the direction, purposes, and uses of the SASS. As part of this review, this paper discusses the scope, uses, and possible changes to the school administrator component of the SASS from a user's point of view. An overview of the School Administrator Questionnaire is presented across the three separate SASS surveys. Next, an assessment of the current uses of the school administrator data is given, and lastly comments and suggestions for possible changes to the school administrator survey are offered. As a survey of principals, this survey has contributed to an understanding of the school administrator workforce in the United States. To extend the usefulness of the survey, a number of changes are suggested. These include: (1) keep the core items consistent but simplify overly elaborate items; (2) expand the items on inservice and preservice training and solicit information about levels of satisfaction with training; (3) request that principals rank the relative importance of a number of school activities related to their leadership roles; (4) remove items related to principals' perceptions of school problems to make room for new items; (5) retain the locus of control items; and (6) include some questions about principal licensure procedures. (Contains 2 tables and 58 references.) (SLD)