Education Statistics

Chicago - Illinois - United States - International

See Other University of Chicago Resources for education statistics.

Chicago

• School and Citywide Reports
  Chicago Public Schools Office of Research, Evaluation and Accountability
  Publicly available data for all Chicago Public Schools and the district, including test scores and school report cards. Additional data may be available for research purposes.
• Census 2000: Summary Tables of Social, Economic, & Housing Data for the 77 Community Areas in the City of Chicago
  Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
  A report of social, economic, and housing information for the 77 Community Areas in Chicago based on the 2000 Census. Use Table DP-3 for education statistics. Historic data is available from the Chicago Community Factbook (title varies) for 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970-1980, and 1990.

Illinois

• Data and Statistics
  Illinois Board of Higher Education
  Includes the Data Book on Illinois Higher Education (currently published online only; older editions in print, LA267.5.D38 Regenstein Bookstacks) with statistics on enrollment, student characteristcs, degrees conferred, financial assistance and costs; these are available full-text online from 1998 forward. Additional reports and statistics are also available.
• Data Analysis and Progress Reporting
  Illinois State Board of Education
  Includes School Report Cards for individual schools and districts in the State of Illinois. A variety of documents and evaluative reports are available full-text, such as the Illinois Learning Standards and results on Illinois State Assessments.

United States

• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
  Part of the U.S. Department of Education, this is the major educational statistics agency for the U.S. The NCES website provides a variety of helpful statistical tools and resources, including:
  • The Nation's Report Card - The National Assessment of Educational Progress
  • The Digest of Education Statistics
  • The Condition of Education
  • Indicators of School Crime and Safety
  • Projections of Education Statistics
  • School District Demographics System
    
• The National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC)
  Established by the NCES "to provide education information and data to teachers, researchers, policy makers, faculty, and others who need access to the most current data collected from major education surveys, and who cannot take advantage of the available NCES computer products or who do not have appropriate facilities to process the available data.serve the education information needs of teachers, researchers, policy makers, and others who need access to the most current education data." Data sets and customized tables from many studies maintained by NCES are currently available through NEDRC.
• School Matters
  Standard and Poor's
  This site aims to contain the largest collection of public education data ever assembled. It includes student achievement information, financial data, demographics, performance on standardized tests, teacher salaries, and more. All of the data come from public sources. It is possible to compare data between schools, between school districts, states, and with national averages.
• ChildStats.gov
  Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
  This resource compiles information on the U.S. child population from various sources. Information is available on family characteristics, economic security, health, social environment, educational indicators and more. Selected international comparisons are also provided.
• Chronicle of Higher Education's Facts and Figures
  The website of this newspaper makes a wide variety of statistics available (access restricted to UofC community). Major statistical reports are included in the annual Almanac of Higher Education which is printed as a special supplement issue each August. The Library subscribes to the newspaper online and in print (current issues in the 2nd floor Reading Room; older issues are in microforms).
• Education Watch Online
  Education Trust
  Sponsored a nonprofit organization, this is source of data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college.
• Measuring Up: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education
  National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
  Begun in 2000 and repeated every two years, these reports grade states on their performance in categories such as: preparation, participation, affordability, completion, and benefits. New for 2006 are sections with international comparisons.
• Education Statistics
  National Education Association
  Includes the NES's annual "Rankings and Estimates" report covering topics such as teacher salaries and expenditures per pupil. This report ranks the States based on NEA's assessment of the amount of support for education. Additional data is available in publications such as the annual NEA Almanac of Higher Education.
• Social Statistics Briefing Room--Education
  A service of the White House, the briefing room draws upon various federal studies, including those of the National Center for Education Statistics and the National Science Foundation, to report across all educational levels and disciplines.
• State Data Resources
  From Stateline.org, a nonprofit organization, this site links to numerous online resources. Organized by issue, inlcuding education, links are provided to infromation sources from government, academia, and think tanks
• AFT Salary Surveys
  American Federation of Teachers
  The annual report provides state-by-state salary comparisons, beginning teacher salaries, and salary data for school districts in the nation's 100 largest cities.
• U.S. Census Bureau
  Has a summary listing of regularly collected Education data.
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition)
  Historical U.S. Census data. Search by keyword, or browse using the Table of Contents (Education data is Section Bc).
  

International

• UNStats: United Nations Common Database of Statistics
  United Nations Statistics Division
  This database compiles a wide array of social and economic indicators from various international agencies and reports for most countries of the world. A source list is available and includes series from theUNESCO Yearbook, and UNICEF's annual State of the World's Children.
• Edstats
  World Bank
  Offers access to statistics produced by the World Bank and to a compilation from major sources such as the International Monetary Fund, UNESCO, and OECD. The statistics are arranged in modules so that they can be retrieved in a variety of ways. The major modules include country data, thematic data, regional indicators, World Bank lending, and country at a glance. Also included is a large listing of links to related resources for international educational statistics.
• International Archive of Education Data (IAED)
  National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  Supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Reserach (ICPSR), this archive's purpose is to acquire and make available the data sets, data definitions, and codebooks useful for education research. The initial collections of IAED, operated by ICPSR, are the data surveys from NCES; additional collections will be acquired as they become available. IAED does not acquire, archive, or distribute the reports, analyses and statistics that are published based on the data.
• Global Education Database
  Office of Education of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
  This source provides data on more than 200 educational indicators for more that 60 countries. Coverage dates from 1970's to present. Note that not all variables are available for all countries for all years. The data is compiled from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics.
• Eurydice: The Information Network on Education in Europe
  Covers the education systems of the Member States of the European Union, the three countries of the European Free Trade Association which are members of the European Economic Area, and the EU candidate countries involved in the EU Action Programme in the field of Lifelong Learning. Eurydice collects data and publishes reports and analyses to compare countries educational systems and products, and also engages in research on questions of interest to the European community. You can browse the data by indicator, country, or topic.
• International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
  This international cooperative of research agencies conducts large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement. A list is available of completed studies, and published reports, but not the full-text. However, datasets are available along with an online analyzer. The Library owns print copies of most previous IEA studies.
• International Comparisons in Education
  From NCES, this site links to the various international studies and assessments in which the U.S. participates.
• Education
  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  OECD conducts studies such as the current Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that surveys the knowledge and skills of 15-year olds and examines factors that influence the development of these skills at home and school. The organization offers an Education Database that provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems. OECD member countries co-operate to gather the information, to develop and apply common definitions and criteria for the quality control of the data, to verify the data and to provide the information necessary to interpret the submitted data. The Library subscribes to SourceOECD which provides the full-text for monographs, periodicals and statistics produced by the agency.
• Education Statistics
  UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  Statistical publications on education and world literacy. For older statistics covering 1963-1999, consult the printed source, UNESCO Statistical Yearbook (AS4.U8A199).
• World Data on Education (WDE)
  The database World Data on Education includes statistics from the National Reports on the Development of Education, supplemented with data from other sources. Five editions (out of print) have been produced so far. The database contains detailed and systematized information on education systems of 161 countries worldwide, with a particular emphasis on curricula and curriculum development processes. Each individual profile of national education system can be downloaded in the pdf format.
• World Development Indicators
  World Bank
  This is a database of economic and social indicators, including educational factors, published annually by the World Bank. Data can be exported into a spreadsheet.

Other University of Chicago Resources

• NORC, the National Opinion Research Center
  Norc has several program areas, including one for Education and Child Development. Available at NORC's website are the full-texts and tables of several longitudinal studies, including the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates.
• Social Science Data Archive
  The Archive provides data sets and support to memebers of the Social Sciences Division of the University of Chicago and the Academic Research Areas of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Serivces are limited to these groups.