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National Household Education Survey (NHES)
The NHES is a household-based data collection system designed to address a wide range of education related issues from early childhood to school age to adulthood. The NHES... -
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
The TANF database contains demographic characteristics for families receiving assistance under the TANF program. TANF case record information is reported to the national TANF... -
Public Needs for Library and Museum Services Survey (PNLMS)
The purpose of PNLMS survey is to determine attitudes, to assess awareness of issues related to library and museum services, and to track trends in visitation and usage. The... -
National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
The NLS, sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, are nationally representative surveys that follow the same sample of individuals from specific birth cohorts over... -
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is an epidemiologic survey system established by CDC to monitor the prevalence of youth behavior that most influences health.... -
National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS)
The NMFS program, begun in the 1960’s, uses a sample of United States residents who die in a given year to supplement the death certificate with information from the next of kin... -
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) & NHIS-Native Hawaiian and Pacific Is...
The NHIS is a household survey that serves as the primary source of information on the health of the U.S., non-institutionalized, civilian population. Though it has undergone... -
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey & National Youth Fitness Sur...
The NHANES is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. The survey is unique in that it combines... -
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)
The NCANDS is a federally sponsored national data collection effort created for the purpose of tracking the volume and nature of child maltreatment reporting each year within... -
National Community College Benchmark Project (NCCBP)
The NCCBP has been collecting community college data since 2004 and offers community colleges one site where their trend data is available. The powerful peer comparison tool... -
Civil Rights Data Collection (CRD)
This database provides wide range of education access and equity data from the nation’s public schools. Two forms are collected: school form and district form. -
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
The SIPP is a household-based survey designed as a continuous series of national panels. Each panel features a nationally representative sample interviewed over a multi-year... -
Progress In International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)
PIRLS is an international comparative assessment that measures student learning in reading. PIRLS documents worldwide trends in the reading knowledge of fourth-graders as well... -
Progress for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC)
The PIAAC is a cyclical, large-scale study that was designed to assess and compare the basic skills and the broad range of competencies of adults around the world. The... -
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
The PISA is an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students’ reading, mathematics, and science literacy every three years. PISA also includes measures of general... -
Private School Universe Survey (PSS)
The purposes of PPS data collection activities are: to build an accurate and complete list of private schools to serve as a sampling frame for NCES sample surveys of private... -
Pre-elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)
The PEELS followed almost 3,000 children with disabilities as they progressed through preschool and into their early elementary years. Data were collected on the preschool and... -
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The PSID began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States. Information on these individuals and... -
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
The NSDUH, formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse or NHSDA, is designed to produce drug and alcohol use incidence and prevalence estimates and report the... -
Aging Integrated Database (AGID)
The AGing Integrated Database (AGID) is an on-line query system based on ACL-related data files and surveys, and includes population characteristics from the Census Bureau for...