"I worked my way through college. You should too."
This Excel workbook illustrates the data calculations used to show the number of hours a student would have to work to finance his or her college education through earnings from employment.
The time period shown is 1964-65 through 2007-08. The institutional types for which these calculations are made are public universities, public 4-year colleges, community colleges, private universities, private 4-year colleges and private 2-year colleges. 7/28/2009

1996 - 1997 Financial Aid by Program and State
This Excel spreadsheet summarizes federal, state and institutional aid awarded to students for the 1996-97 academic year by source, program and state. The pages include dollars awarded, students served and average awards. 6/13/1998

ACT National Graduation Rates, 1983 to 2009
This Excel spreadsheet compiles all of ACT's published annual reports on institutional graduation rates.
ACT collects these data on its annual Institutional Data Questionnaire and publishes them in a variety of publications including its annual ACT National Dropout and Graduation Rate Report. Rates are reported as means with standard deviations by institutional control, highest degree offered and admissions selectivity. With ACT's permission, we have compiled these annual reports into this spreadsheet for 5-year and 3-year graduation rates. 10/14/2009

ACT National Persistence Rates, 1983 to 2009
This Excel spreadsheet complies all of ACT's published annual reports on institutional freshman-to-sophomore persistence rates.
ACT collects these data on its annual Institutional Data Questionnaire and publishes them in a variety of publications including its annual ACT National Dropout and Graduation Rate Report. Rates are reported as means with standard deviations by institutional control, highest degree offered and admissions selectivity. With ACT's permission, we have compiled these annual reports into this spreadsheet for freshman-to-sophomore persistence rates. 10/14/2009

Agricultural Employment, 1990-2009 5/11/2010

Bachelor's Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartiles, 1970 to 2008
This Excel workbook summarizes data on high school graduation rates, college continuation rates, college participation rates, estimated bachelor's degree completion rates and estimated bachelor's degree attainment by age 24 by family income quartiles for each year from 1970 through 2008.
Original data were collected by Census Bureau and National Center for Education Statistics. 12/17/2009

Chance for College by Age 19 by State, 1986 to 2008
This Excel workbook contains the data used to calculate the proportion of each state's 19 years olds who will be enrolled in college somewhere in the United States in the fall following high school graduation.
Data are available for the years 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. The public high school graduation rate, the college continuation rate, and their combination - chance for college by age 19 - are shown for each state and year. 9/2/2010

Chance for College for Students from Low Income Families by State, FY1992 to FY1998
This Excel workbook provides the data used by OPPORTUNITY to calculate the proportion of each state's low income students in grades 4 to 9 who reach college by ages 18 to 24.
The ratios for each state and year are of the number of dependent Pell Grant recipients by sate of residence divided by the proportion of public school 4th ot 9th grade students nine years earlier who were approved for free or reduced-price school lunches. The input data are unpublished. Some data are extrapolated. 6/23/2000

College Affordability Measures by State, Family Income and Sector for:
Full-Time, Full-Year, Single Institution, Dependent Undergraduate Studies for State Residents, 2004 11/8/2005

College Continuation Rates by Family Income for Dependent Family Members
15 to 24 Years Old in Same Year Graduated from High School, 1987 to 2004 7/28/2009

College Enrollment & Work Activity of Recent High School Leavers, 1959 to 2002
This Excel workbook contains worksheets with data on the college enrollment and employment status of people who were enrolled in high school a year earlier.
The leavers are surveyed in the October Current Population Survey by the Census Bureau, although the data are published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The leavers are classified into high school graduates and dropouts. The high school graduates are classified as enrolled in college or not enrolled in college. The labor force status is reported (employed, unemployed, not in labor force). The demographic classifications of the data are gender (maile, female) and race/ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic). 7/26/2002

College Entrance & Participation Rates by Race/Ethnicity & Gender for Recent High School Graduates & Leavers, 1959 to 2009
This Excel workbook summarizes data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Current Population Survey 
on the transition from high school directly into college the following fall for men, women, whites, blacks, hispanics and other race population categories.These data are the first published each year on numbers of high school graduates and college freshmen. 5/11/2010

College Participation Rates for Dependent 18 to 24 Year Olds
By Family Income, Gender and Race/Ethnicity, 1996-2000
This Excel workbook summarizes as much as five years of data on high school graduation rates, college continuation rates and college participation rates for dependent 18 to 24 year olds by family income ranges, gender and race/ethnicity. The original data were collected by the Census Bureau in the October Current Population Surveys for 1996 through 2000, and published in the P20 series of Current Population Reports on school enrollments. 12/12/2001

College Participation Rates for Students from Low Income Families by State FY1993 to FY2008
This Excel workbook contains state and national data used to calculate college participation rates for students from low income families for the years FY1993 to FY2008. This rate is the ratio of dependent Pell Grant Recipients divided by 4th to 9th graders nine years earlier, approved for free or reduced-price school lunches.
The data for each state includes: dependent Pell Grant recipients by state of residence, 4th to 9th grade enrollments in public schools, the percent of children approved for subsidized school lunches, the number of 4th to 9th graders in these low income families, and their rate of enrollment in college nine years later. These data show the number of children in these low income families in the K-12 pipeline headed toward higher education in each state. 6/30/2009

Death Rates by Suicide Among 15 to 24 Year Olds by Gender 1900 to 2000
This data reports suicides for males and females ages 15 to 24 years old for 1900 through 2000.
The data reported includes both suicide rates (deaths per 100,000 population) for country for 1900 through 2000 and by race/ethnicity for selected years, and the numbers of suicides by gender and by state for 1998, 1999 and 2000. This data was collected and published by the National Center for Health Statistics and its predecessors. 5/27/2003

Degrees Conferred by Level of Degree, Gender and State 1970 to 2008 5/13/2010

Dependent and Independent Pell Grant Recipients by Institutional Type/Control and State, 1993-94 to 2007-08 8/20/2009

Earnings by Educational Attainment
Probability for earning at least median income by educational attainment and gender. This data was used in the analysis in Issues #187 January 2008. 2/6/2008

Educational Attainment & Economic Welfare Measures in:
Metropolitan Statistical Areas: 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 7/28/2009

Educational Attainment by State, 1977 to 2009
This Excel workbook summarizes data collected and reported by the Census Bureau on the number and proportion of each state's population age 25 and over that is at least a high school graduate and that has at least a Bachelor's degree from college.
The data from 1977 through 1987 are for the 15 largest states only. Beginning in 1989 data was reported for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. 3/11/2010