Statistical Datasets in category E0: Education
In 1983, the U.S. Congress mandated a
national study of special education students' experiences with transition out
of school and into adult life. The study was conducted to provide
practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and other special education affiliates
with information that describes the transition that disabled youth make from
secondary school to early adulthood. It was further to identify factors that
contribute to youths' effective transition from secondary school to employment,
further training or education, and independent living. The Office of Special
Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education contracted with
SRI International to develop a research design, craft and field test data
collection instruments, and select a sample of students for a study that would
meet the congressional mandate. In April 1987, under a separate contract, SRI
began data collection for The National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special
Education Students, 1987-1991 (NLTS).
These data were acquired from the The Research Archive on Disability in the U.S. 1999 Edition
(RADIUS), of Sociometrics Corporation. The collection
was established with funding from the National Center for Medical
Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) within the National Institute for Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD)
List of variables for
RAD0810 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
List of variables for
RAD11
Documentation
Stata/SE format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/rad/rad0810.dta.gz 6 Mb
Stata/SE is
available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu,
and may be acquired for desktop systems. You may use Stata/SE
or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be
used with standard (Intercooled) Stata,
and will require much less RAM.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/rad/rad11.dta.gz 2.5 Mb
SPSS portable format
(in gzipped form):
rad0810.por.gz 7
Mb
rad11.por.gz 3
Mb
Last modified: 05 August 2004