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Abstract #300923

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Activity Number: 197
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #300923
Title: Development of the School District Analysis System
Author(s): Stephen R. Wenck*+ and Meyer Zitter and Tai Phan
Companies: Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. and Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. and National Center for Education Statistics
Address: 1901 N. Moore St., Suite 900, Arlington, VA, 22209,
Keywords: school district data ; National Center for Education Statistics ; cross-tabulations ; education policy ; 2000 decennial census data ; web-based data delivery
Abstract:

The Census School District Special Tabulation contains summary data from school districts, counties, states, and the nation using 2000 Census short- and long-form data. These data provide tabulations for parents with children, households with children, children's own characteristics, children's household characteristics, and children's parents' characteristics, as well as total population. These data are augmented by data from the National Center for Education Statistics in areas of analytical interest pertaining to children and K-12 education (particularly the Common Core of Data) to form the 2000 School District Analysis System (SDAS), an online cross-tabulation system using the 2000 decennial census in a different perspective to examine children in relation to their family and household characteristics. The SDAS presents counts of children or school districts by various enrollment and school district characteristics. This paper discusses the data preparation including reclassifying the data by enrollment status & selected school district characteristics. The paper then examines uses for the SDAS including selected results as well as the potential for comparisons to the 1990 product.

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