School File DocumentationNational Center for Education Statistics, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1981 - High school students - 95 pages This documentation is intended to assist users of the school file which was prepared from information collected for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (nls-72). The school file is a companion to the nls-72 student-based data file and consists of 1,318 records, one from each high school from which nls-72 students are sampled. It contains information about the environment, staff, procedures, facilities, and curricula of the sample high schools. This documentation describes the sample design of the survey and is supplemented by appendices containing detailed information about the variables. Appendix a contains the data collection instruments: the School Questionnaire and the Counselor Questionnaires. Appendix b is a summary listing of the 504 variables in the file. The listing provides, for each variable, the variable number and label, the position in the data file, and the corresponding question label. Appendix c is a listing of the frequencies of the responses to each question. (Sld). |
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1318 ABSOLUTE CODE 1318 CATEGORY LABEL 1318 STATISTICS RESEARCH 53 LEGITSKP 53 TOTAL ABSOLUTE CATEGORY LABEL ABSOLUTE CODE FREQ ABSOLUTE FREQ CATEGORY ADEQUATE ADEQUATE ALPHA-NUMERIC DATA ATTEND BLANK 98 BLANK LEGITSKP ABSOLUTE CATEGORY LABEL ABSOLUTE CATEGORY LABEL CODE CLASSES CNLSR CNSLR REC CODE ABSOLUTE FREQ CODE FREQ CATEGORY COLLEGE COLS CONT COUNSELING COUNSELOR COVE CULS DIVISION RESEARCH TRIANGLE EDUCATION ENROLLED IN GRADE FIN AID FREN FREQ CATEGORY LABEL GROUPS HEALTH HELP high school included INSTITUTE SCHOOL TAPE JOB PLACEMENT LAB UNITS LABEL ABSOLUTE CODE LABEL CODE FREQ LEGITSKP 99 LEGITSKP ABSOLUTE CODE LEGITSKP TOTAL 1318 LESS LETTER GRADE LOAN MINORITY NUMBER ENROLLED PROGRAM Questionnaire REC FOR FIN RESEARCH DIVISION RESEARCH RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE sample SCHOLARSHIP SCHOOL TAPE ITEM SOMEONE USED FIN STATISTICS RESEARCH DIVISION TAPE ITEM FREQUENCIES TOTAL 1318 ABSOLUTE TOTAL 1318 CATEGORY TOTAL 1318 TOTAL TOTAL 1318 VAR TRIANGLE INSTITUTE SCHOOL TUTAL variable WEIGHT ΧΝΟ
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Page 10 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 1 - ... seniors in spring of 1972. Five more followup surveys of these students were conducted in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, and 1986. The NLS was designed to provide the education community with information on the transitions of young adults from high school through postsecondary education and the workplace. The sample design for the NLS is a stratified, twostage probability sample of students from all schools, public and private, in the 50 States and the District of Columbia with a 12th-grade enrollment...
Page 8 - No nonwhite students in class (B)0% (C) 1-9% (D) 10-19% (E) 20-29% (F) 30-39% (G) 40-49% (H) 50-59% (I) 60-69% (J) 70-79% (K) 80-89% (L) 90-99% (M) 100% 52. (Senior high schools only) About what percentage of the nonwhites in your graduating class last year went on to some post- high- school education or training of some kind other than a junior college or 4- year college (for example, beauty school, technicalvocational school, or business school)? Do not include military service or postgraduate...
Page 9 - Grid your answer 27. Based on the number of classroom teachers in your school as of September, 1964, what proportion left for reasons other than death or retirement. (A) Less than 5% (B) 5 to 9% (C) 10 to 14% (D) 15 to 19% (E) 20 to 29% (F) 30 to 49% (G) 50% or more 28.
Page 2 - ... or the 1970 Census data by counties. Within each final stratum, four schools were selected, and then two of the four were randomly designated as the primary selections. The other two schools were retained as backup or substitutes and used in the sample only if one or both of the primary schools did not cooperate. The second stage of the sampling procedure consisted of first drawing a simple random sample of 18 students per school and then selecting five additional ones as replacements for possible...
Page 3 - The sample design involved 1,200 primary sample schools and 21,600 students (18 per school). Of the 1,200 primary sample schools, 948 participated in the base-year survey...
Page 1 - ... the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS).
Page 3 - In the second and later follow-up surveys, 18 of the "extra" schools were used to include all cases with complete base-year data. Samples of former 1972 senior students were also selected from 16 sample augmentation schools; these schools were selected from those identified in 200 sample school districts canvassed to identify public schools not included in the original school sampling frame. Samples of students selected from the 16 augmentation schools were not included in the base-year survey but...
Page 1 - ... (such as area vocational schools) where students were also enrolled in other high schools in the sampling frame.
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| Title | School File Documentation |
| Author | Louise B. Henderson |
| Publisher | National Center for Education Statistics, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 95 pages |
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