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National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS)
STIPULATIONS FOR USE: Open Access to SodaPop.
DESCRIPTION: The study is a major longitudinal effort to provide trend data about critical transitions experienced by students as they leave elementary school and progress through high school and into college or their careers. The 1988 eighth-grade cohort will be followed at two-year intervals as this group passes through high school and postsecondary education. The longitudinal data collected will yield policy-relevant information about educational processes and outcomes, early and later predictors of dropping out and students' access to programs and equal opportunity.
ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
RELATED WEB SITES:
NELS 88 Web Site at NCES
NORC (prime contractor) NELS Web Page
NELS CITATION: National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988: Base-Year to Fourth Follow-up Data Files. (2002). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
PROBLEM WITH 1994 DATA: Please note that three of the four data files are listed with the extension .PUB - THE FILES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FLAT ASCII. If you have Microsoft Publisher on your PC, the data file icons with the .PUB extension will show up as Publisher files. You will need to use Word Pad to open these files in Windows.
DATA DISSEMINATED BY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)