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    • The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972

    Metadata Updated: August 13, 2023

    The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) is part of the Secondary Longitudinal Studies (SLS) program; program data is available since 1972 at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubcats.asp?sid=021. The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nls72/index.asp) is a longitudinal survey that follows high school seniors through 5 follow-ups in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, and 1986. The study was conducted using a national representative sample of 1972 high school seniors. Key statistics produced from the National Longitudinal Study of High School Class of 1972 are student's educational aspirations and attainment, family formation, and occupations.

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    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date August 13, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date August 13, 2023
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Education JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 13, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date August 13, 2023
    Publisher National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    Maintainer
    Identifier f0f28b73-254f-453e-9c76-ee0953954e5b
    Data First Published 1994-03-18
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-27T15:25:44.847247
    Rights IES uses Restricted-data Licenses as a mechanism for making more detailed data available to qualified researchers. Please request license to access data by submitting an application via the link in "Resources".
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    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 482a6d9b-44a1-4b02-b268-3ccbdd6a0c78
    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)
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 34125ba2fa8488df436f789858833b0f4d248bfe
    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://www2.ed.gov/notices/sorn/18-13-01_060499.pdf
    Temporal 1971/1986

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