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Description & Citation--Study No. 4070

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4070
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04070
 
Title:Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Degrees and Other Awards Conferred by Title IV Eligible, Degree-Granting Institutions, 1997-1998
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
 
Series:Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM (IPEDS): DEGREES AND OTHER AWARDS CONFERRED BY TITLE IV ELIGIBLE, DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS, 1997-1998 [Computer file]. ICPSR04070-v1. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 2000. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-04-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04070
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains information on degrees earned at a sample of postsecondary institutions in the United States. The survey collected data on the number of completions of academic, vocational, and continuing professional educational programs by award category. A major subset of all postsecondary institutions are those institutions that are eligible to participate in Title IV aid. It is this group of institutions that annually receives a Completions Survey. Beginning in 1996, the subset of eligible institutions was validated by matching the IPEDS universe with the Postsecondary Education Participation System (PEPS) file which is maintained by the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE). OPE grants eligibility to institutions to participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. This validation process was repeated for determining eligibility, and 6,897 accredited institutions were mailed one of the survey forms. There are four files in the collection. Part 1, Response Status Information, contains response status information for the Completions Survey for all 9,744 active institutions in the 1998-99 IPEDS database. Part 2, Postsecondary Completions: Awards/Degrees Conferred, contains the number of degrees and other awards granted by the institution in each field of study (CIP code), by level of award/degree, and by race/ethnicity and sex of recipient. Part 3, Clarifying Questions, contains responses to the two clarifying questions included in the survey: (1) number of double majors by level of degree and sex of recipient, and (2) number of awards/degrees by branches located in foreign countries, by level of award/degree, and by sex of recipient. Part 4, Postsecondary Completions by Major Discipline (Two-Digit CIP Codes), contains the number of degrees and other awards conferred by major discipline (two-digit CIP code), award level, race/ethnicity, and sex of recipient.
 
Subject Term(s):academic degrees, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, colleges, community colleges, doctoral degrees, earned degrees, ethnicity, higher education, masters degrees, postsecondary education, universities
 
Geographic Coverage:American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, United States, Virgin Islands of the United States, Global
 
Time Period:July 1, 1997 - June 30, 1998
 
Date(s) of Collection:October 1998 - April 1999
 
Universe:All postsecondary institutions in operation during 1997-1998 in the United States and its territories.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Beginning in academic year 1995-1996, the data from the Consolidated Survey pertaining to earned degrees is incorporated into the Postsecondary Completions file (Part 2), making available race/ethnicity data by detailed Classification Instructional Program (CIP) codes.
 

Methodology

Sample:A national sample of 9,519 institutions eligible to participate in Title IV aid was selected. Two hundred twenty-five qualifying institutions were not mailed questionnaires.
 
Data Source:self-enumerated questionnaires
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2005-04-07
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.
 
  2006-01-18 - File UG4070.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
  2006-01-18 - File QU4070.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Response Status Information
  • DS2: Postsecondary Completions: Awards/Degrees Conferred
  • DS3: Clarifying Questions
  • DS4: Postsecondary Completions by Major Discipline (Two-Digit CIP Codes)
 

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