ERIC Number: ED286458
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1974
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National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972. Basic Institutional Source File [machine-readable data file].
Tenison, Laurence J.
The National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 collected data on the attributes of students attending postsecondary institutions. The NLS also collected the names of any postsecondary institutions this cohort of students attended and/or applied to during the first two years after high school. In order to provide a link between students (and their data) and the postsecondary institutions they chose and that chose them (and their data), the institutional names in the NLS file were used as a match key to pull institutional data and attributes from four sources: (1) the 1973-74 Higher Education Directory; (2) the 1973-74 Tripartite Application Data File; (3) the 1972-73 Higher Educational General Information Survey (HEGIS) Finance Survey; and (4) the 1972 American Council on Education Institutional Characteristics File. The resultant file provides a body of institutional data that matches up with the institutions simply named in the NLS file and that can be linked to the NLS student data via the common Federal Inter-agency Committee on Education (FICE) codes used by both files to represent institutions. The Basic Institutional Source File is arranged by FICE Code and contains data in the form of 84 variables for each of 4,139 postsecondary institutions. Each institution's record is 452 characters in length. The institutional variables include income level for full-time, half-time, and work study students; expenditures for work study students and for "Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant" students; revenues from federal, state, local, and private sources; normal student expenditure levels for tuition, fees, room, board, books, supplies, transportation, and personal items; and median and composite scores for the American College Testing Program (ACT), National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT), and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) tests. (WTB)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Colleges, Educational Finance, Endowment Funds, Enrollment, Expenditures, Federal Aid, Fees, Financial Aid Applicants, Financial Support, Higher Education, Income, Institutional Characteristics, National Surveys, Postsecondary Education, Racial Composition, School Surveys, Scores, State Aid, Statistical Surveys, Student Costs, Student Financial Aid, Tuition, Universities, Work Study Programs
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), Information Services (IS), 555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20208. Telephone: (800) 424-1616, (202) 357-6768. (SAS File or SPSS-X File, $150).
Publication Type: Machine-Readable Data Files; Numerical/Quantitative Data
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Center for Educational Statistics (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC.; Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: College Entrance Examination Board, Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972
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