URL: http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/sdc00001.html

TITLE: Common Core of Data [San Diego, CA]: Public Education Agency Universe, 1993-1997

• STUDYNO = sdc00001
• INVESTIGATOR = United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
• DATA TYPE = Numerical survey data
• DATA SOURCE = Self-enumerated forms
• UNIVERSE = All public elementary and secondary education agencies in San Diego, California
• DATE-UPDATED-SSDC = July 20, 2006

STUDY DESCRIPTION: These data files are subsets of Common Core of Data: Public Education Agency Universe, 1993-1997 for education agencies located in San Diego county, California. The national data files are available from the UCSD Social Sciences Data Collection. Data files are available for the following local areas in Excel (.xls) and database (.dbf) formats. Database files can be imported into GIS software.

Each data file contains names of local education agencies, their street addresses and zip codes. Data variables include agency type, number of teachers and students (ungraded/PK-12), number of students with special education Individual Education Programs (IEPs), number of high school completers (regular diploma/other diploma/other completers), number of staff, and dropout data for grades 7-12 by race. Data for dropouts was not compiled at the national level prior to 1993.

EXTENT OF COLLECTION: Data tables + Documentation

• CODEBOOK: The codebook lists all variables and can be used to lookup variable names and labels.

• DATA FILES: Data tables are available in Excel and dBase IV formats.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. COMMON CORE OF DATA [SAN DIEGO, CA]: PUBLIC EDUCATION AGENCY UNIVERSE, 1993-1997 [Computer files]. SSDC version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1995. San Diego, CA: UCSD Social Sciences Data Collection [distributor], 2000.