Data Analysis Systems
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
National Center for Education Statistics

WELCOME

This CD contains data from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary
Faculty and all the other available NCES data analysis systems.
The available systems on this CD are:

1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty 12/6/96
National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty: 1987 1/23/97
B&B:94 Baccalaureate and Beyond 10/16/96
BPS:94 Beginning Postsecondary Students-Second Follow-up 10/16/96
NPSAS:96 Federal Aid Recipients 1995-96 10/11/96
NPSAS:93 Undergraduate Students 8/30/96
NPSAS:93 Graduate and First-Professional Students 8/30/96
NPSAS:90 Undergraduates 8/14/95
NPSAS:90 Graduate/First Professionals 4/13/94
NPSAS:87 Undergraduates New 12/11/96
NPSAS:87 Graduate and First-Professional Students 9/26/95
NELS:88/94 1/23/97
High School & Beyond: Sophomores, 1980-1992 12/9/96
HS&B:80-86 Seniors 4/3/95
National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 9/11/96

By installing any DAS included on this CD, you accept the legal 
conditions of use and agree to protect the DAS from misuse by 
others.  Do NOT tamper with any of the DAS files.  Do NOT 
share the files with other users.

The federal laws protecting the individual records embedded within
the DAS include:

 The Privacy Act of 1974 (as amended) [5.U.S.C.552a] and the

 National Education Statistics Act of 1994, Public Law 103-382 
 [20 U.S.C. 9001 et seq.]

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HOW TO GET STARTED

IN WINDOWS:

1.   Go to File Manager (Win 3.*) or Explorer (Win95)

2.   Open window for CD

3.   Double-click SETUP.EXE in \DASW

     Setup will then prompt you for drives and settings as needed,
     and create a Windows DAS program group. If you already have a
     windows DAS installed, use the same DASW directory. SETUP will
     automatically create a new subdirectories as needed.

4.   To run a DAS, double click on its icon within the DAS group.

IN DOS:

1.   From a DOS prompt, run INSTALL.EXE in the subdirectory for the
     data you wish to use.  For PF3 data with the CD as E:
     {         E:\PF3\INSTALL                  }

2.   The installation program will place the needed files on your PC.

3.   To run a DAS, execute the ???DAS.EXE program with /T for tables
     or /C for a correlation matrix.  For PF3 tables, installed on
     C:\PF3  (from a C:\PF3> prompt),
     {         PF3DAS /T                       }

The DAS is a menu driven system that allows you to produce frequencies,
crosstabulations, and correlation matrices without access to individuals'
responses, and is therefore provided for public use by the U.S. Department
of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).  

The DAS does not contain all variables from any of the listed studies,
but does contain most of those which are of interest to analysts
for descriptive purposes.  

This CD contains both MS-DOS and Windows versions of the DAS along
with HOW2DAS.TXT, a file that gives specific examples of how to build 
tables using the MS-DOS version of the NSOPF:93 DAS (look in \MISC).

This system is protected by Federal Law.  Please carefully 
read the information that follows.

DAS will NOT display individual records.  
Tampering with the files in this system in an attempt to access 
individual records is a violation of Federal Law and can result 
in a fine of $250,000 and imprisonment of up to 5 years.

If you have access to INTERNET, to obtain information on the latest
NCES publications and Data Analysis System (DAS) software, point 
your browser to the NCES home page: 

http://www.ed.gov/NCES 

If you have technical questions about DAS or would like to 
request a special analysis or tabulation for a well 
defined question and you do not have appropriate facilities to 
process the available data, contact the NCES

National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC)
C/O Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc
1900 N. Beauregard Street, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22311-1722
Telephone:(703) 845-3151
FAX:      (703) 820-7465
Internet E-Mail address:  nedrc@inet.ed.gov
 

To obtain information on access to specific survey data files used
to create variables in this Data Analysis System, contact
     
DATA SECURITY OFFICER
STATISTICAL STANDARDS AND SERVICES GROUP
NCES/OERI - ROOM 408
US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
555 NEW JERSEY AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON  DC  20208-5654
  
Telephone: (202) 219-1831
     
Internet E-Mail address: CYNTHIA_BARTON@ED.GOV


For more information on NSOPF, contact:

LINDA ZIMBLER
SURVEYS AND COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS GROUP
555 NEW JERSEY AVE. NW
WASHINGTON DC, 20208-5652
(202) 219-1834

INTERNET ADDRESS: LINDA_ZIMBLER@ED.GOV


For other DASs, contact:

AURORA D'AMICO
POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION AND OUTCOMES LONGITUDINAL STUDIES GROUP
555 NEW JERSEY AVE. NW
WASHINGTON DC, 20208-5652
(202) 219-1365

INTERNET ADDRESS: AURORA_D'AMICO@ED.GOV