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    • Private School Universe Survey, 2001-02

    Metadata Updated: August 12, 2023

    The 2001-02 Private School Universe Survey (PSS 2001-02) is a study that is part of the Private School Universe program; program data is available since 1989-1990 at . PSS 2001-02 (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, with an internet response option, 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 2001-02 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

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005305.pdf
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_0102.zip
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_0102.pdf

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date August 12, 2023
    Data Update Frequency R/P2Y

    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 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    Maintainer
    Identifier 4396b7f4-2510-45ca-be38-319b4b1f3917
    Data First Published 2006-06-28
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-10T15:36:11.590009
    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://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 7d967f3c-0e64-4f68-89a5-d1bdd5f664a5
    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) > Institute of Education Sciences (IES) > National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    Related Documents https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005305.pdf, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_0102.zip, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_0102.pdf
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 72a3cc54aa03c1271f5bcba6f27c3a459244ac73
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 2001/2002

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