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    • Private School Universe Survey, 2003-04

    Metadata Updated: August 12, 2023

    The Private School Universe Survey, 2003-04 (PSS 2003-04), is a study that is part of the Private School Universe program. PSS 2003-04 (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 universe consists of a diverse population of schools. It 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. The study's unweighted and weighted response rates were both 94 percent. Key statistics produced from PSS 2003-04 are on the growth of religiously affiliated schools, the number of private high school graduates, the length of the school year for various private schools, 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/pubs2008/2008314.pdf
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_0304.pdf
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_0304.zip

    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 f7575a26-a0ec-490d-805e-a485d5a0161a
    Data First Published 2006-03-16
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-10T15:35:18.492950
    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 7097ad02-13d7-4964-9acb-6abe47b78240
    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/pubs2008/2008314.pdf, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_0304.pdf, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_0304.zip
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a9e0998e9b455c93a113e09f07735d2a1c812767
    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}
    Temporal 2003/2004

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