Music Education: Find Statistics

Trends in enrollment, expenditures, local assistance, Federal aid, staffing, and postsecondary student financial aid.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.

Created as part of the Open Government Initiative, provides access to datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government.

The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) is an interagency committee dedicated to improving the quality of Federal statistics. This site includes FedStats.

Reports on total state effort for higher education, including tax appropriations for universities, colleges, community colleges, and state higher education agencies. From the Center for the Study of Educational Policy.

Annual Grapevine reports since fiscal year 1961

IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey) provides data on colleges, universities, and technical and vocational postsecondary institutions in the United States. For more information visit http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/

The 'Nation's Report Card,' the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. NAEP provides comprehensive measure of students' learning at critical junctures in their school experience." (NAEP Guide)

The primary federal agency (within the Department of Education) that collects, analyzes and disseminates educational information from the US and other nations.

A nationally representative sample of eighth-graders were first surveyed in the spring of 1988. A sample of these respondents were then resurveyed through four follow-ups in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2000. On the questionnaire, students reported on a range of topics including: school, work, and home experiences; educational resources and support; the role in education of their parents and peers; neighborhood characteristics; educational and occupational aspirations; and other student perceptions.

Provides a compilation of statistical information covering American education from pre-K through graduate school. Data comes from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the NCES. Including information on the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education.

From the U. S. Census -- Education data sites

Data presented is collected annually in the October Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Nation.

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National Education Statistical Information Systems (NESIS), launched in 1991, is the action programme of the Working Group on Education Statistics (WGES), one of the eleven working groups of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).

Numerical Data Services on the 3rd floor of Bird Library offers assistance with obtaining and using data. Please contact the Numeric Data Services Librarian for assistance.