Education Statistics: Places to Find Them

The Necessary

• Condition of Education 1999
  A National Center for Education Statistics publication. One of the BIG sources of Education Statistics.
  
  
• Digest of Education Statistics 1999
  A yearly publication of the National Center for Education Statistics containing detailed education statistics for the United States.

• National Center for Education Statistics
  The major source of specialized education statistics.

Supplemental

• Almanac of Higher Education (1999)
  Statistical and general information about higher education in the US as a whole and on a state-by-state basis. Entries for each state include demographics, political leadership, colleges and universities, faculty members, students, and money. The online version contains only part of the printed versions' information and focuses on salary, benefit, and administrative issues.
  
  
• CIA's Worldfactbook 2002
  Information about countries around the world, includes a wide variety of statistics.

• Employment Projections
  A Bureau of Labor Statistics site that includes not only employment projection statistics, but also such fulltext, electronic BLS publications as the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Occupational Projections and Training Data and The American Workforce.

• National Longitudinal Surveys
  Information about and statistics from both the 1979 and the new 1996 National Longitudinal Surveys. The 1996 survey will be completed in 1998, and will focus on young people's transition from full time schooling to adult life, establishment of families, and careers.

• Population Estimates by Age, Sex and Race: 1990-1992
  This site, maintained by the Census Bureau provides estimates of population for counties and states by age, sex and race for the years 1990, 1991, and 1992.

• Education Statistics at a Glance
  A National Center for Education Statistics publication.

• .U. S. Census Bureau Search Page
  This site contains a wide variety of statistics; of special interest to educators are statistics on "Children," "College Enrollment," "Education," "Finances of Government and Schools," and "Schools."

• U. S. Counties: 1969-1994
  This site, maintained by Oregon State University, uses Census Bureau information to provide demographic, economic and governmental information for U. S. Counties. Comparisons can be made of up to three counties at a time.

• U. S. Population Projections
  Census Bureau population projections by age and by race for the nation and individual states.

• Youth Indicators 1996
  A National Center for Education Statistics publication that "looks at the lives of students beyond the schoolhouse doors" and includes such things as early childhood experiences, family relationships, and home environments information.