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Description & Citation--Study No. 4133

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4133
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04133
 
Title:Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999-2000: [United States]
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
 
Series:Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. SCHOOLS AND STAFFING SURVEY, 1999-2000: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. ICPSR04133-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], 2005-05-23. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04133
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), consists of an integrated set of surveys collected from public, private, public charter, and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools nationwide. This collection provides information about teachers and administrators and the general condition of America's elementary and secondary schools. Parts 1 and 2, Public and Private Teacher Data, provide information about teachers, such as teaching field, teaching workload, and teaching experience. Parts 3 and 4, Public and Private Administrator (Principal) Data, provide information about the training, experience, professional background, and demographic characteristics of school principals. Parts 5 and 6, Public and Private School Data, include information about schools such as policies, staffing patterns, student characteristics, programs and services offered, and activities related to various school reform issues. Part 7, Public District Data, provides information about school districts, such as enrollment and teacher counts, graduation requirements, and district policies regarding hiring and compensation of teachers, accountability reporting, and other measures of recent reforms.
 
Subject Term(s):educational administrators, elementary education, private schools, public schools, school enrollments, school libraries, school personnel, secondary education, teacher education, teacher shortages, teaching (occupation)
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1999 - 2000
 
Date(s) of Collection:1999 - 2000
 
Universe:Public and private schools in the United States in 1999-2000.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:This version of the collection is derived from the NCES's "Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) 1999-2000 CD-ROM."
 

Methodology

Sample:Stratified sample.
 
Weight:none
 
Mode of Data Collection:self-enumerated questionnaires
 
  telephone interviews
 

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.
 
Restrictions:These data are released in accordance with the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA). GEPA protects privacy by ensuring that respondents will never be individually identified. Under Public Law 100-297, the National Center for Education Statistics is responsible for protecting the privacy of individual respondents and is releasing these data to be used for statistical purposes only. Record matching or deductive disclosure by any user is prohibited. To ensure that the confidentiality provisions contained in PL 100-297 have been fully implemented, procedures for disclosure avoidance were used in preparing the data in this release. Every effort has been made to provide the maximum research information consistent with reasonable confidentiality protections. Therefore, certain variables have been deleted and others have been recoded into broader categories.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2005-05-23
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-03-30.
 
  2006-03-30 - File UG04133-ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
  2006-03-30 - File DCI04133-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: Teacher Survey Public School Data
  • DS2: Teacher Survey Private School Data
  • DS3: Administrator Survey Public School Data
  • DS4: Administrator Survey Private School Data
  • DS5: School Survey Public School Data
  • DS6: School Survey Private School Data
  • DS7: Public District Data
 

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