This dataset combines public data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the US Census Bureau’s American Community Service in an index of racial and ethnic representativeness of US postsecondary education institutions. The data link college racial composition to the racial composition of an institution’s “market,” defined geographically according to institutions’ level, degree of selectivity, and urbanicity.
Dataset Info
- Modified 2024-07-03
- Release Date 2020-06-14
- Temporal Coverage 2009-01-01T00:00:00
- License odc-by
- Granularity
- Contact Name Urban Institute
- Contact Email [email protected]
- Public Access Level public
Urban Extended Info
- Modified 2024-07-03
- Release Date 2020-06-14
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- Urban Publications
- Citation Requirements Urban Institute. 2020. Racial and Ethnic Representativeness of US Postsecondary Education Institutions. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/racial-and-ethnic-representativene.... Data originally sourced from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and US Census American Community Survey, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.