The Statewide Measures Inventory is essentially a list of items of information, along with concise definitions and other information of interest relevant to statewide postsecondary education planning and management. It has been designed primarily for use by state level postsecondary education planners and decisionmakers. The primary objective of the inventory is to improve and simplify communication through increased standardization of terminology and usage. Secondary objectives are to provide assistance to those concerned with developing and designing data bases and information systems, and to suggest ways that statewide planning and decisionmaking might be improved through the identification of problems and issues to which the measures of the inventory are relevant. Although the inventory was developed in the context of statewide planning and decisionmaking, it may prove valuable to institutional and national planners and decisionmakers as well. Because of the wide variety of patterns of planning and decisionmaking responsibilities in the 50 states, an early decision was made not to attempt to serve any particular planning, management, or resource allocation system, but instead to focus on rather general, broadly applicable planning and management needs. The result is the current focus on general state level concerns that are widely held to be major problems areas in the 50 states, but are not closely related to particular management system or styles. (Author)