State Need-Based Grant Coverage of Pell Grant Recipients
1978-79 to 2006-07 7/1/2008

Dependent and Independent Pell Grant Recipients by Institutional Type/Control and State
1993-94 to 2006-07 7/1/2008

Bachelor's Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartiles, 1970 to 2006
This Excel workbook summarizes data on high school graduation rates, college continuation rates, college participation rates, estimated bachelor's degree completion rates and estimated bachelor's degree attainment by age 24 by family income quartiles for each year from 1970 through 2006.
Original data were collected by Census Bureau and National Center for Education Statistics. 6/30/2008

Pell Grant Recipient Data by State, 1976-77 to 2006-07
This large Excel workbook contains Pell Grant recipient data by state, by institutional control, and by year, 1976 to 2007.
The data are compiled from annual Pell Grant End of Year reports prepared by the U.S. Department of Education. The recipient data included both the numbers of Pell Grant recipients and the Pell Grant dollars they received for each academic year. The Pell Grant recipient data are classified in two ways: first by location of institution, then by state of residence of the recipients. The difference between these two is net migration of Pell Grant recipients and dollars into or out of each state. 6/30/2008

Residence and Migration of College Freshmen Graduating from High School in the Past 12 Months
These data are for the fall terms of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. This data was collected in the fall IPEDS enrollment surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics. These data are used to study the interstate migration of college freshmen. 6/24/2008

College Entrance Rate by Race/Ethnicity and Gender for Recent High School Graduates and Leavers, 1959 to 2007
This Excel workbook summarizes data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Current Population Survey  
on the transition from high school directly into college the following fall for men, women, whites, blacks, hispanics and other race population categories.These data are the first published each year on numbers of high school graduates and college freshmen. 6/6/2008

Raw Pell Grant Recipient Data by State and Institution
from the Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education. For years 1992-93, 1993-94, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07.  4/25/2008

National Income and Product Accounts, 1952 to 2006
These two Excel worksheets tabulate the most recently reported data on expenditures for higher education by the federal government, state and local governments, and students and their parents for higher education.
These data are compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis as a part of the National Income and Product Accounts of the United States. Compiled and reported in this way, they provide insights into higher education finance for the United States that are not available from other sources. 4/23/2008

Per Capita Personal Income for U.S., States and Regions, 1929 to 2007
These data have been compiled and reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. 
We have organized these data to describe changes in state and regional per capita personal income compared to U.S. per capita personal income.The comparisons are time series and are of three types: states (or regions) as a percent of U.S., states (or regions) in CPI adjusted constant dollars, and state ranks year by year. 4/18/2008

Degrees Conferred by Level of Degree, Gender and State 1970 to 2006 4/18/2008

Public High School Graduation Rates by State, 1981 to 2006
This Excel workbook compiles historical data by state on the cohort survival rates of public school ninth graders through regular high school graduation.
These data are reported by states to the National Center for Education Statistics, and from these reports the cohort survival rates are calculated for each state and each state is ranked by the resulting high school graduation rate. 4/18/2008

ACT National Graduation Rates, 1983 to 2007
This Excel spreadsheet compiles all of ACT's published annual reports on institutional freshman-to-sophomore graduation rates.
ACT collects these data on its annual Institutional Data Questionnaire and publishes them in a variety of publications including its annual ACT National Dropout and Graduation Rate Report. Rates are reported as means with standard deviations by institutional control, highest degree offered and admissions selectivity. With ACT's permission, we have compiled these annual reports into this spreadsheet for 5-year and 3-year graduation rates. 4/1/2008

ACT National Dropout Rates, 1983 to 2007
This Excel spreadsheet complies all of ACT's published annual reports on institutional freshman-to-sophomore dropout rates.
ACT collects these data on its annual Institutional Data Questionnaire and publishes them in a variety of publications including its annual ACT National Dropout and Graduation Rate Report. Rates are reported as means with standard deviations by institutional control, highest degree offered and admissions selectivity. With ACT's permission, we have compiled these annual reports into this spreadsheet for freshman-to-sophomore dropout rates. 4/1/2008

National School Lunch Program, State-Level Data, FY1993 - FY2007
These data provide annual, state-level data on participation by K-12 students in the the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program.
School children approved for free lunches come from the lowest family income levels, and those approved for reduced price lunches come from somewhat high but sill low income families.These data are useful when measuring the number of children from low income families enrolled in K-12 education, and headed for higher education in each state. The data used in these tables were prepared by Jeffrey Derr and Anne Pauls, Child Nutrition Division, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 4/1/2008

College Participation Rates for Students from Low Income Families by State FY1993 to FY2006
This Excel workbook contains state and national data used to calculate college participation rates for students from low income families for the years FY1993 to FY2005. This rate is the ratio of dependent Pell Grant Recipients divided by 4th to 9th graders nine years earlier, approved for free or reduced-price school lunches.
The data for each state includes: dependent Pell Grant recipients by state of residence, 4th to 9th grade enrollments in public schools, the percent of children approved for subsidized school lunches, the number of 4th to 9th graders in these low income families, and their rate of enrollment in college nine years later. These data show the number of children in these low income families in the K-12 pipeline headed toward higher education in each state. 4/1/2008

State Appropriations, Public University Tuition Rates and Need-Based Grant Funding
This large Excel spreadsheet compiles data on year-to-year changes in state tax fund appropriations for higher education, public institution and fee rates, and state funding for need-based grant programs.
Data are compiled for years between FY1975 and FY2007 for all 50 states. These analysis consists of trends and patterns in bivariate correlations over time and within states. 3/31/2008

"I worked my way through college. You should too."
This Excel workbook illustrates the data calculations used to show the number of hours a student would have to work to finance his or her college education through earnings from employment.
The time period shown is 1964-65 through 2006-07. The institutional types for which these calculations are made are public universities, public 4-year colleges, community colleges, private universities, private 4-year colleges and private 2-year colleges. 3/5/2008

Earnings by Educational Attainment
Probability for earning at least median income by educational attainment and gender. This data was used in the analysis in Issues #187 January 2008. 2/6/2008

Educational Attainment by State, 1977 to 2007
This Excel workbook summarizes data collected and reported by the Census Bureau on the number and proportion of each state's population age 25 and over that is at least a high school graduate and that has at least a Bachelor's degree from college.
The data from 1977 through 1987 are for the 15 largest states only. Beginning in 1989 data was reported for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. 2/6/2008

State and Local Tax Fund Appropriations for Higher Education per $1000 of State Personal Income, FY1961 to FY2008
 
This large Excel spreadsheet combines the Grapevine data from Illinois State University on state tax fund appropriations for higher education, with state personal income data published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.Data are reported for each state for each fiscal year from 1961 through 2008. These data illustrate the ebb and flow of state investment in higher education over the last three decades.  2/6/2008