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Racial and Ethnic Representativeness of US Postsecondary Education Institutions

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.

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FieldValue
Modified
2020-06-25
Release Date
2020-06-14
Frequency
Annually
Identifier
7ffff2cb-4b7d-457b-9c97-f02b8687168f
Temporal Coverage
2009-01-01 00:00 to 2017-01-01 00:00
License
Author
Tomas Monarrez and Kelia Washington
Contact Name
Urban Institute
Data Dictionary Type
Excel
Contact Email
Public Access Level
Public
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Data Dictionary Files
Data Value
Units of Observation
Original Data Source
Universe Target Population
US Institutions of Postsecondary Education
Cost
$0.00
Additional Notes

College markets are defined according to their level, degree of selectivity, and urbanicity. More selective public institutions use states as markets. More selective private institutions use the entire nation as the market. Less selective colleges use markets defined by commuting radiuses measured according to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. See our report for more details: Tomas Monarrez and Kelia Washington, Racial and Ethnic Representation in Higher Education (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2020).

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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.