ERIC ED437396: Schools and Staffing Survey 1990-91: Data File User's Manual. Volume I: Survey Documentation.

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TITLE
Schools and Staffing Survey 1990-91: Data File User's
Manual. Volume I: Survey Documentation.
INSTITUTION
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VA.; Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD.
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PUB DATE
1994-01-00
NOTE
513p.; For volumes II and III, see ED 435 733-734.
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DESCRIPTORS
*Coding; Data Analysis; Elementary Secondary Education;
National Surveys; *Research Methodology; Response Rates
(Questionnaires); Sample Size; *Sampling; School Personnel;
School Statistics; *Teachers; User Needs (Information)
IDENTIFIERS
Data Files; *Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES)
ABSTRACT
This volume documents the data collection of the 1990-91
Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). People wishing to determine whether their
research needs can be served by SASS data will find a description of the
survey's contents and objectives in the Overview. This volume contains the
following chapters:
"Overview";
"Changes in SASS Design and Content
(1)
(2)
from 1998 to 1991";
"Preparation for the 1991 SASS";
"Sample Design
(3)
(4)
and Implementation";
"Data Collection";
"Response Rates";
"Edit
(5)
(6)
(7)
Procedures";
"Imputation Procedures";
"Weighting";
"Variance
(10)
(8)
(9)
Estimation";
(11) "Reinterview Program";
(12) "Reviewing the Quality of SASS
Data";
"Cautions Concerning the Measurement of Change Estimates Using
(13)
1987-88 and 1990-91 SASS";
(14) "Confidentiality Protection Measures";
(15)
"Created Variables"; and (16)
"User Notes." Seven appendixes contain
supplemental information about the survey.
(Contains 153 tables and 21
figures.)
(SLD)
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from the original document.
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User's Manual
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Schools and Staffing Survey
1990 -91 Schools and Staffing
Survey: Data File User's
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Volume I: Survey Documentation
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U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
NCES 93-144-I
NATIONAL CENTE=a FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS
User's Manual
January 1994
Schools and Staffing Survey
1990-91 Schools and Staffing
Sure y: Data File User's
Manual
Volume I: Survey Documentation
SASS
Kerry J. Gruber
Elementary/Secondary Education Statistics Division
Carol L. Rohr
Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc.
Sharon E. Fondelier
Bureau of the Census
epartment of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
NCES 93 -144 -I
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U.S. Department of Education
Richard W. Riley
Secretary
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Sharon P. Robinson
Assistant Secretary
National Center for Education Statistics
Emerson J. Elliott
Commissioner
National Center for Education Statistics
"The purpose of the Center shall be to collect, and analyze,
and disseminate statistics and other data related to
education in the United States and in other
nations."Section 406(b) of the General Education
Provisions Act, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1221e-1).
January 1994
Contact:
Kerry J. Gruber
[phone]
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Preface
This set of volumes is intended to document the data collection of the 1990-91 Schools
and Staffing Surveys (SASS) and is intended for several types of readers. Researchers ready
to access the datafile may choose to go directly to the Codebooks for each survey (Volumes II
and III, for the Restricted-Use Version and the Public-Use Version, respectively), which
contain the layout and descriptive information on all survey and sampling variables.
Persons wishing to ascertain whether their research needs can be served by SASS data
may find the Overview useful with descriptions of the survey's contents and objectives.
Finally, for those interested in the design and methodology of each SASS component, there
are chapters on Sample Design and Implementation, Data Collection, Edit Procedures, and
Imputation.
We are interested in your reaction to the information presented here about the Schools
and Staffing Survey data collection system as well as the microdata files we release. We
welcome your recommendations for improving our survey work and data products.
If you
have suggestions or comments or want more information, please contact:
SASS Datatapes
Special Surveys and Analysis Branch
Elementary and Secondary Education Statistics Division
National Center for Education Statistics
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20208-5651
We are also interested in the research you do using the SASS data sets. We would be
pleased to receive copies of reports, working papers, and published articles you write, which
use data from the SASS. Send them to the address above.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank all those who contributed to the production of the data files
and this technical document. Each of the staff members of the Special Surveys and Analysis
Branch who supervised the collection of one or more SASS components provided data tables
and careful review: Sharon Bobbitt (Teacher), Stephen Broughman (Teacher Demand and
Shortage), Charles Hammer (Administrator), Steven Kaufman (Sample Design and
Implementation, Imputation for all components), Mary Rollefson (Teacher Demand and
Shortage), and Summer Whitener (Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools). Elizabeth Gerald
contributed information on the Private School Survey and data tables from a separate report
on the 1988-89 Private School Survey (the frame for the private schools). Dan Kasprzyk,
SSAB Branch Chief, did extensive editing and provided overall production oversight.
Technical reviewers at the National Center for Education Statistics are Marilyn McMillen
(division statistical review) and Susan Ahmed (statistical standards). Frank Johnson of the
General Surveys and Analysis Branch provided technical help with his LOCALE code. John
Sietsema, also of GSAB, helped put together a work group to look into the issue of CCD and
SASS definition differences.
The Education Surveys Branch of the Bureau of the Census, as primary data collector,
prepared all data files and drafted major sections of this report and the codebooks. Sarah
Doherty and Lawrence McGinn, former and current Education Surveys branch chiefs,
La Terri Bynum, Lenore Colaciello, Sharon Fondelier, Patrick Healy, Richard Schwartz, and
the entire Education Surveys Programming Branch headed by Howard McGowan and assisted
by Stella Kim, Venancio Aguirre, Kathy Carlers, and Kenneth King, produced the computer
edits, imputation scheme, and preliminary codebooks. Dennis Schwanz' branch in the
Demographic Statistical Methods Division at Census provided specifications for sample
selection, decision rules for eligibility, while Pat Wilson's branch supervised fieldwork for all
sampling-related aspects of all the surveys.
The earliest phase of data collection is the review of data instruments. Our thanks go to the
many Reviewers on the SASS Review Board and to the Data Users' Group, who provided
valuable insight from researchers' perspectives. In addition, SSAB holds an annual Private
School meeting to solicit reactions from the varied members of the Private school community.
Shelley Burns and John Burkett of the Data Development Division at NCES have served often
in reviewing data instruments and plans.
Finally, the final restricted-use and public-use datafiles and this document would not be
possible without the technical support of Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc.: Ross Merlin,
who oversaw numerous versions of the datafiles, Hilda Lynch, general programming
expertise, Matt Gibbs, programmer and liaison between SASS and the PSS, and Tracy Jones,
formatting and printing.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME I
iii
Preface
iv
Acknowledgments
Overview
I.
1
2
Purpose of the Survey
A.
3
Periodicity of the Survey
B.
Objectives and Policy Issues
3
C.
Target Population and Estimates
5
D.
7
Survey Content
E.
Changes in SASS Design and Content from 1988 to 1991 9
II.
Procedural Changes
10
A.
Design Changes
10
B.
Content Changes
11
C.
Preparation for the 1991 SASS
III.
13
Sample Design and Implementation
15
IV.
Sampling Frames
16
A.
Public Schools
16
1.
Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools
17
2.
17
Private Schools
3.
Sample Allocation
18
B.
Public Schools
18
1.
20
Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools
2.
20
Private Schools
3.
Overlapping 1988 and 1991 SASS Samples
21
C.
21
Public Schools
1.
22
Private Schools
2.
22
Sample Selection Procedures
D.
22
Public Schools
1.
23
Private Schools
2.
24
Public School Districts
3.
25
Teachers
4.
29
Data Collection
V.
30
Time Frame of the Survey
A.
Data Collection Procedures
31
B.
33
Response Rates
VI.
34
Survey Response Rates
A.
34
Item Response Rates
B.
vi
Edit Procedures
VII.
39
A.
Field Office Edit
40
General Clerical Edit
B.
40
Computer Pre-edit
C.
41
Computer Edit
D.
55
Interview Status Edit
E.
55
Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey
1.
55
Public Schools (SASS-3A)
2.
56
Private Schools (SASS-3B)
3.
56
Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools (SASS-3C)
4.
57
Public and Private School Administrators (SASS-2A and 2B)
5.
58
.
.
.
Public and Private School Teachers (SASS-4A and 4B)
6.
58
F.
Post Processing Edit
59
Race/ethnicity Edit
G.
62
Imputation Procedures
VIII.
71
A.
Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey (SASS-1A)
72
First Stage
1.
72
Second Stage
2.
73
Public and Private School Administrators (SASS-2A and 2B)
B.
74
First Stage
1.
74
Second Stage
2.
74
Public Schools (SASS-3A)
C.
75
First Stage
1.
75
2.
Second Stage
75
D.
Private Schools (SASS-3B)
76
First stage
1.
76
Second stage
2.
76
Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools (SASS-3C)
E.
77
F.
Public and Private School Teachers (SASS-4A and 4B)
77
First stage
1.
77
Second stage
2.
78
Imputation Flags
G.
78
Weighting
IX.
97
School Weight (SASS Questionnaire Forms 3A, 3B, and 3C)
A.
98
School Weighting Adjustment Cells
B.
99
Public School Adjustment Cells
99
1.
Private School Adjustment Cells
2.
99
C.
Administrator Weight (SASS Questionnaire Forms 2A and 2B)
100
D.
Teacher Demand and Shortage for Public Districts (SASS Questionnaire
Form 1A)
100
Local Education Agency (LEA) Basic Weights
E.
101
LEAs with Schools
1.
101
LEAs Without Schools
2.
102
LEA Basic Weights for Delaware, Nevada and West Virginia
3.
102
.
.
vii
Teacher Weights (SASS Questionnaire Forms 4A and 4B)
F.
102
Public Adjustment Cells
104
1.
Private Adjustment Cells
104
2.
107
Variance Estimation
X.
Replicate Assignment
108
A.
Replicates: Public Schools
108
1.
Replicates: Private Schools
2.
109
Replicates: Treatment of the Overlap Sample
109
3.
Replicates: Administrators
4.
109
Replicates: Teachers
5.
109
Replicates: Local Education Agencies
109
6.
110
Replicate Weights
B.
Reinterview Program
XI.
111
Reviewing the Quality of SASS Data
115
XII.
Teacher Demand and Shortage Questionnaire for Public School Districts
A.
117
(SASS-1A)
School Administrator Questionnaires (SASS-2A and 2B)
127
B.
127
School Questionnaires (SASS-3A and 3B)
C.
Teacher Questionnaires (SASS-4A and 4B)
132
D.
Cautions Concerning the Measurement of Change Estimates using 1987-88
XIII.
and 1990-91 SASS
135
Confidentiality Protection Measures
139
XIV.
140
Public-Use Files
A.
Restricted-Use Files
141
B.
File Linkage
142
C.
Treatment of BIA Schools
142
D.
145
Created Variables
XV.
Variables Added to the Datafile
146
A.
Analysis Variables Used in NCES Publications
149
B.
XVI. User Notes
151
APPENDICES
A-1
Appendix A. Definitions
Appendix B. Crosswalk between items in the 1987-88 and 1990-91 SASS
B-1
Teacher Demand and Shortage Questionnaire
B-1
Public School Administrator Questionnaire
B-8
Private School Administrator Questionnaire
B-11
9
Public School Questionnaire
B-14
Private School Questionnaire
B-21
Public School Teacher Questionnaire
B-28
Private School Teacher Questionnaire
B-35
Appendix C. Crosswalk of codes for teachers' major field of study
C-1
Appendix D. SAS Variable List
D-1
Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey, Public and Private School Surveys
D-1
.
Public and Private School Administrator Surveys
D-20
Public and Private School Teacher Surveys
D-28
Appendix E. Selected Unweighted and Weighted Tables
E-1
Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey
E-3
Public School Administrator Survey
E-13
Private School Administrator Survey
E-33
Public School Survey
E-49
Private School Survey
E-69
Public School Teacher Survey
E-73
Private School Teacher Survey
E-85
Appendix F. Questionnaires
F-1
Teacher Demand and Shortage Questionnaire (SASS 1A)
F-3
F-17
Public School Administrator Questionnaire (SASS 2A)
F-27
Private School Administrator Questionnaire (SASS 2B)
F-37
Public School Questionnaire (SASS 3A)
Private School Questionnaire (SASS 3B)
F-53
F-77
Public School Teacher Questionnaire (SASS 4A)
Private School Teacher Questionnaire (SASS 4B)
F-103
Appendix G. Industry and Occupation Codes
G-1
VOLUME II
RESTRICTED-USE CODEBOOKS
Preface to Volume II
iii
Created Variables
xi
I.
Variables Added to the Datafile
xii
A.
Analysis Variables Used in NCES Publications
xv
B.
xvii
User Notes
II.
Appendix H. Teacher Demand and Shortage (SASS 1A), Public and Private School
(SASS 3A and 3B) Codebook
H-1
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