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    • Free Application for Federal Student Aid, 2015-16

    Metadata Updated: August 12, 2023

    The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, 2015-16 (FAFSA 2015-16), is part of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) program; program data is available since 2006-07 at . FAFSA 2015-16 (https://studentaid.ed.gov/) is a universe data collection of eligible incoming postsecondary education students, along with a subset of eligible continuing postsecondary education students, that collects financial information to determine the need and eligibility for financial assistance during postsecondary education. FAFSA 2015-16 applications are accepted via web and paper submission. Citizen and specified noncitizen students demonstrating financial need and planning to attend eligible degree or certificate programs in the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the outlying areas as regular students are eligible to apply for FAFSA 2015-16. FAFSA 2015-16 resulted in an expected family contribution (EFC) for each applying student. Statistics produced from FAFSA 2015-16 include application volumes by postsecondary school, state of legal residence, and completion by high school; and recipient and volume data by program for each school participating in Title IV programs.

    Access & Use Information

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

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    References

    https://studentaid.ed.gov/sites/default/files/fsawg/datacenter/library/FAFSAReportDefinitions.doc

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date August 12, 2023
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Education JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date August 12, 2023
    Publisher Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)
    Maintainer
    Identifier d324c9ff-83ef-4ab1-ac1b-3eb4b6075f26
    Data First Published 2016-06-30
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-02T20:56:13.824288
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 018:45
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.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
    Harvest Object Id b1b07173-1549-45d4-ae37-f951f360c6b4
    Harvest Source Id 2a5c4dd8-eda9-4f03-abc3-fff8cfb80fc6
    Harvest Source Title Education JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 018:000
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department of Education > Office of the Secretary (OS) > Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) > Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)
    Related Documents https://studentaid.ed.gov/sites/default/files/fsawg/datacenter/library/FAFSAReportDefinitions.doc
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d1f4dbc8712f9c77d600bd690e3feafa8320aa6c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    System of Records https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-08-03/pdf/2011-19607.pdf
    Temporal 2015/2016

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