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Welcome to the International Archive of Education Data

The International Archive of Education Data (IAED) is a project formerly sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations.

The Archive acquires, processes, documents, and disseminates data collected by national, state or provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels of education in countries for which data can be made available. Data will encompass the "inputs" to education (funding, personnel, teaching resources, facilities, teacher and student preparation, etc.), the variety of processes by which teaching and learning occur, and the "outputs" of education (graduation and matriculation rates, drop-out rates, test scores, job placements, life histories, life assessments, etc.). The data stored in this Archive are intended to support a wide variety of comparative and longitudinal research through the preservation and sharing of data resources. The Archive seeks to serve the needs of academics, policymakers, and researchers in the field of education.

Data from NCES formed the initial foundation of the Archive. The Archive, housed in and operated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, contains a large number of NCES public-use research data holdings available to faculty and students at all ICPSR member institutions.

Data files, documentation, and reports are downloadable from the website in public-use format. The website features an online Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) that allows users to conduct analyses on selected datasets within the Archive.

We would like to hear from researchers about educational data that they would like to see included in the Archive. We would welcome inquiries from project investigators who wish to deposit their data in the International Archive of Education Data. Please consult our Data Deposit Form and other information about submitting data collections to IAED, or contact us directly at iaed@icpsr.umich.edu.