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  • Private School Universe Survey, 1991-92

    Metadata Updated: November 10, 2020

    The 1991–92 Private School Universe Survey (PSS 1991–92) is a study that is part of the Private School Universe program; program data is available since 1989–1990 at . PSS 1991–92 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/) is a cross-sectional survey that collects data on private elementary and secondary schools, including religious orientation, level of school, length of school year, length of school day, total enrollment (K–12), race/ethnicity of students, number of high school graduates, number of teachers employed, program emphasis, and existence and type of kindergarten program. The study was conducted using mail questionnaires and telephone follow-up of all private schools in the United States. The PSS includes both schools with a religious orientation (e.g., Catholic, Lutheran, or Jewish) and nonsectarian schools with programs ranging from regular to special emphasis and special education. Key statistics produced from PSS 1991–92 are on the number of religiously affiliated schools, the number of private high school graduates, and the number of private school students and teachers.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    References

    https://nces.ed.gov/pubs94/94350.pdf
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_9192.zip
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_9192.pdf

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Data Update Frequency R/P2Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Education JSON

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Publisher National Center for Education Statistics
    Unique Identifier Unknown
    Maintainer
    Identifier NCES_94350
    Data First Published 2007-01-31
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2007-01-31
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P2Y
    Bureau Code 018:50
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www2.ed.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Homepage URL https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/index.asp
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 018:000
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department of Education > Institute of Education Sciences > National Center for Education Statistics
    Related Documents https://nces.ed.gov/pubs94/94350.pdf, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_9192.zip, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_9192.pdf
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e0ac981ce94c64c6636ab6ce4defe214c4074733
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial United States
    Temporal 1991/1992

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