Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Earned Degrees, 1989-1990 (ICPSR 9858)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09858.v2

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Summary

This data collection contains information on degrees earned at a sample of postsecondary institutions in the United States. There are three files in this data collection. Part 1, 1989-1990 Completions Survey, contains data on the number of completions of academic, vocational, and continuing professional educational programs by award category. Part 2, Institutional Characteristics, is a comprehensive file pertaining to the characteristics of the institutions surveyed (i.e., religious affiliation, highest level of offering, enrollment by race/ethnicity, Carnegie classification). Part 3, CIP Codes and Titles, provides a detailed list of the Classification of Instructional Programs codes and their titles found in the data files.

Citation

United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS):  Earned Degrees, 1989-1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09858.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1989-07-01 -- 1990-06-30

Date of Collection

1990-07-01 -- 1991-03-31

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data record length of CIP Codes and Titles should have a length of 47 as opposed to 60. The data file has been "padded out" with blanks (48-60).

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Sample

A national sample of 6,930 institutions was selected. These included 2,506 schools offering at least a baccalaureate degree, 1,426 schools offering a degree or certificate of at least two years but less than four years, and 2,998 nonaccredited schools offering degrees or awards ranging from less than one year to post-master's certificates.

Universe

All postsecondary institutions in operation in 1989-1990 in the United States, the District of Columbia, and outlying territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands) and Department of Defense schools outside the United States.

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1993-02-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Earned Degrees, 1989-1990. ICPSR09858-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09858.v2

2006-01-18 File CB9858.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

1999-07-01 The data and corresponding codebook have been replaced with updated versions from NCES. The data have been split into three parts, and more variables have been added. The updated codebook now also includes the Completions Survey data collection instrument and the Classification of Instructional Programs Codes and Titles. Also, the codebook has been converted to a PDF file, and SAS data definition statements have been prepared.

1993-02-12 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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