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Description & Citation--Study No. 7647

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7647
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07647
 
Title:Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) XII: Institutional Characteristics of Colleges and Universities, 1977-1978
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
 
Series:Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. HIGHER EDUCATION GENERAL INFORMATION SURVEY (HEGIS) XII: INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 1977-1978 [Computer file]. ICPSR07647-v2. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-14. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07647
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) series was designed to provide comprehensive information on various aspects of postsecondary education in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside the United States. Data are available for both public and private two-year and four-year institutions. The HEGIS Institutional Characteristics component for 1977-1978 sought data on basic characteristics from institutions of higher education. The data include information on name, address, and telephone number of the institution as well as information about accreditations, state and city demographics, calendar system, program types, enrollment figures, administrative officers, student services, tuition and fees, room and board, and admission requirements.
 
Subject Term(s):accreditation (institutions), admissions policies, colleges, community colleges, education costs, educational administration, educational administrators, educational programs, higher education, school enrollments, student financial aid, universities
 
Geographic Coverage:American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, United States, Virgin Islands of the United States, Global
 
Time Period:1977 - 1978
 
Date(s) of Collection:1977 - 1978
 
Universe:All postsecondary institutions in operation during 1977-1978 in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside of the United States.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) The original data received from NCES was a hierarchical data file with multiple records per case. The data have been reformatted into a rectangular file with one record per case, in order to be compatible with the current statistical software packages. (2) The accreditation code variables (ACCDCD#) in the original data file supplied by NCES were coded as PIC S9(3) COMP-3. ICPSR has recoded these values into their ASCII numeric equivalents.
 

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:self-enumerated questionnaire
 

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:1984-05-03
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-14.
 
  2005-11-14 - The data have been reformatted into a rectangular file with one record per case. The accreditation code variables (ACCDCD#) in the original data file supplied by NCES were coded as PIC S9(3) COMP-3. ICPSR has recoded these values into their ASCII numeric equivalents. An ICPSR codebook, SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been added to the study. The title of this study has been altered.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Main Data File
 

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