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

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

Bachelor's Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartiles, 1970 to 2006 [Spread]
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 [Spread]
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

Updated State Data Books [Other]
State Data Books for each state have been updated.

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Residence and Migration of College Freshmen Graduating from High School in the Past 12 Months [Spread]
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 [Spread]
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

National Income and Product Accounts, 1952 to 2006 [Spread]
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 [Spread]
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 [Spread] 4/18/2008

Public High School Graduation Rates by State, 1981 to 2006 [Spread]
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

National School Lunch Program, State-Level Data, FY1993 - FY2007 [Spread]
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

ACT National Graduation Rates, 1983 to 2007 [Spread]
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 [Spread]
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

State Appropriations, Public University Tuition Rates and Need-Based Grant Funding [Spread]
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