50 State Database
US Department of Education -National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data
| Type of Source: Describes the type of data source: federal administrative data, federal survey, survey conducted by private/nonprofit organizations, and other databases created by non-governmental organizations |
Federal Administrative Data |
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| Source Description and Coverage: Describes how data is collected and the sample representation |
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is a program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. It is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database�of information concerning all public elementary and secondary schools (approximately 95,000) and school districts� (approximately 17,000). This data set includes public pre-k and kindergarten enrollment. |
| Data Available: Includes a description of all variables available |
Enrollment in public pre-kindergarten, enrollment in public kindergarten; children eligible for free lunch; children eligible for reduced price lunch |
| Child Care Economic Data? Coded as yes if data source has data on size of child care sector (number of establishments, number of employees, wages and gross receipts) |
No |
| Demographic Data? Coded as yes if data source has data on demographics of families and children. |
Yes |
| Early Care and Education Program Data? Coded as yes if data source has data on public and private early care and education enrollment, funding, and regulations. |
Yes |
| Geographic Level: Describes the geographic levels for which data is available |
State, county, metropolitan area, school district, and school |
| Year Available: Gives the year for the most recent data available for each source (as of 2004) |
data are available annually |
| Raw Data: Links the user to the website of the organization collecting the data, so user can access the raw data |
http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/bat/ |
| In Cornell database? Links the user to Cornell's quantitative database which has a sampling of the most recent data available (as of 2004) for several of the sources listed here. |
Yes: see data for academic year 2001-2002 |
| Link to Variable Descriptions: | http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/aboutCCD.asp#overview |
| Variables: |
Prekindergarten Enrollment, 2001-2002
Number of Prekindergarten Teachers, 2001-2002 Free Lunch Eligible 1998-1999 Free Lunch Eligible 1999-2000 to 2001-2002 Free and Reduced Price Lunch Eligible 1998-1999 to 2001-2002 Kindergarten Enrollment, 2001-2002 Reduced Price Lunch Eligible 1998-1999 to 2001-2002 Key: Economic Data Demographic Data Early Care and Education Program Data |