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    • Private School Universe Survey, 2007-08

    Metadata Updated: August 12, 2023

    The Private School Universe Survey, 2007-08 (PSS 2007-08), is a study that is part of the Private School Universe Survey program. PSS 2007-08 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/) is a cross-sectional survey that builds an accurate and complete universe of private schools to serve as a sampling frame for NCES surveys of private schools and generates biennial data on the total number of private schools, teachers, and students. The study was conducted using surveys of administrative personnel. The study's response rate was 91.8 percent. Key statistics produced from PSS 2007-08 are 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.

    Access & Use Information

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

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009319.pdf
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_0708.pdf
    https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_0708.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 22c648bb-2f0f-4c08-bce3-d908b5fae108
    Data First Published 2009-03-19
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-10T15:34:08.513062
    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 b29e73d1-e28d-4b14-bb21-90090fef6d4f
    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/pubs2009/2009319.pdf, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/pdf/quest_0708.pdf, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/zip/LAYOUT_0708.zip
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b2b769d0d47ca33df7b8ab1d12cf8b1e9a554aea
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 2007/2008

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