State Education Contextual Data Resource (S-ECDR)

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Katrina M. Walsemann, University of Maryland, College Park; Emily Abbruzzi, University of Maryland, College Park; Pallavi Tyagi, University of Maryland, College Park; Heide Jackson, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer A. Ailshire, University of Southern California

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Project Citation:

Walsemann, Katrina M., Abbruzzi, Emily , Tyagi, Pallavi, Jackson, Heide, and Ailshire, Jennifer A. State Education Contextual Data Resource (S-ECDR). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E233063V1

Project Description

Summary: The State Education Contextual Data Resource (S-ECDR) is a historical dataset that compiles state-level indicators of public education systems in the United States from 1919/20 through 1973/74. The dataset includes measures related to public school financing, teacher characteristics, school and classroom contexts, and segregation and desegregation in the U.S. South. Data were drawn from four historical sources: the Biennial Surveys of Education, the Statistics of State School Systems, a 1967 Southern Education Reporting Service report, and U.S. Census Abstracts.

The dataset was created to support research on how early-life education contexts influence long-term outcomes in adulthood, particularly for cohorts who attended school during a period of significant expansion in U.S. public education. S-ECDR includes indicators that enable comparisons of state-level education investment, teacher workforce composition, and access to education across time and geographic region. The resource is designed to facilitate linkage to individual-level surveys containing state and year identifiers, enabling analysis of how historical education environments shaped later-life well-being.

Funding Sources: National Institute on Aging (R01AG067536); National Institute on Aging (K02AG075237); National Institute on Aging (R01AG055481-04S1); Alzheimer's Association (AARG-NTF-20-684252)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: public schools; educational finance; education policy; teachers; school segregation; school desegregation; state government; historical data; k-12; United States

Geographic Coverage: United States, states

Time Period(s): 1919 – 1974

Collection Date(s): 9/1/2020 – 5/1/2025

Universe: Public elementary and secondary education systems in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia from 1919/20 through 1973/74.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; aggregate data

Collection Notes: The S-ECDR was compiled from multiple historical sources and harmonized to provide consistent, state-level indicators across a 54-year period. Although the original data were administrative in nature, they were digitized and restructured to support longitudinal analysis and linkage to individual-level datasets. This version of the dataset is released through both ICPSR and MiCDA's Geographic Linkages Repository and includes documentation to support reproducibility and use across disciplines.

Methodology

Response Rate: Not applicable. The dataset was compiled from publicly available administrative records rather than collected from survey respondents.

Sampling: This dataset is a complete census of public education administrative data from the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, collected biennially between 1919/20 and 1973/74. No sampling was used.

Data Source:

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1919/20–1957/58 [Government report series]. U.S. Government Printing Office. https://www.hathitrust.org/

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Statistics of State School Systems, 1959/60–1973/74. U.S. Government Printing Office; HathiTrust Digital Library. https://www.hathitrust.org/

Campbell, R. F., Flake, T., & Lesson, J. (1967). A statistical summary, state by state, of school segregation-desegregation in the Southern and Border area from 1954 to the present (No. ED001964). ERIC. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED001964

U.S. Census Bureau. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1968–1974. U.S. Government Printing Office; U.S. Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/time-series/statistical_abstracts.html

Collection Mode(s): other

Scales: Not applicable. No standardized scales were used; all data were extracted from historical administrative tables and reported as numeric values or percentages.

Weights: No weights were applied. The dataset consists of a full census of state-level education indicators from 1919/20 to 1973/74, and no weighting is necessary for analysis.

Unit(s) of Observation: State, State-year

Geographic Unit: State

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