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School Survey on Crime and Safety, 2016

Metadata Updated: February 7, 2023

The 2016 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2016) is a data collection that is part of the School Survey on Crime and Safety program; program data are available since 2000 at . SSOCS:2016 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ssocs/) is a cross-sectional survey of the nation's public schools designed to provide estimates of school crime, discipline, disorder, programs and policies. Regular public schools were sampled. The data collection was conducted using a mail questionnaire with telephone follow-up. The data collection’s response rate was 62.9 percent. Key statistics produced from SSOCS:2016 include the frequency and types of disciplinary actions taken for select offenses; perceptions of other disciplinary problems, such as bullying, verbal abuse and disorder in the classroom; the presence and role of school security staff; parent and community involvement; staff training; mental health services available to students; and school policies and programs concerning crime and safety.

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/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2018107

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 7, 2023
Data Update Frequency R/P2Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from Education JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 7, 2023
Publisher National Center for Education Statistics
Maintainer
Identifier NCES_2017122
Data First Published 2017-12-08
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2018-03-27
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P2Y
Bureau Code 018:50
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Metadata Catalog ID https://www2.ed.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Id 2a5c4dd8-eda9-4f03-abc3-fff8cfb80fc6
Harvest Source Title Education JSON
Homepage URL https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ssocs/index.asp
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 > Institute of Education Sciences > National Center for Education Statistics
Related Documents https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2018107
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 665c944f36ab889fba4315e09a1707cef685a3fd
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2015/2016

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