Links to Additional Information

Notes: The links below are to information resources hosted by organizations outside NSF. Links were correct at the time of release but may no longer be active as a result of changes at the referenced organization's Web site.

Population Estimates and Projections

Statistical Abstract of the United States (tables 10-17). Available at http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html.

National population estimates by age, sex, and race/ethnicity: 2004

• By sex and race/ethnicity:
  Available at http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2004-srh.html.
• By age and sex:
  Available at http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2004-sa.html.
• By age and race/ethnicity:
  Available at http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2004-asrh.html.

Precollege Education

Precollege Mathematics and Science Achievement

National Center for Education Statistics, Children's Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Kindergarten and First Grade. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002125.

National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), The Nation's Report Card.

• Science: Available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/.
• Mathematics: Available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/mathematics/.

High School Science and Mathematics Coursetaking

The College Board, Advanced Placement Program, State and National Summary Reports. Available at http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_sum/2006.html.

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), State Indicators of Science and Mathematics Education 2003 . Available at http://www.ccsso.org/projects/Science_and_Mathematics_Education_Indicators/.

National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education: 2005. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/.

Students Served Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs' Annual Report to Congress. Available at http://www.ideadata.org/.

Mathematics and Science Teachers

National Center for Education Statistics, Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts, by State: School Year. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pub_snf_report.asp.

National Center for Education Statistics, Qualifications of Public Secondary School Biology Teachers, 1999 –2000. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005081.

National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (elementary and secondary education). Available at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/.

Parent Involvement

National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education: 2002–03. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005043.pdf.

Number of Students

National Center for Education Statistics, Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts, by State: School Year. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pub_snf_report.asp.

Computer Use

National Center for Education Statistics, Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Private Schools: 1998–99. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001037.

National Center for Education Statistics, Beyond School-Level Internet Access: Support for Instructional Use of Technology. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002029.

National Center for Education Statistics, Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994–2003. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/publications/2005015/.

National Center for Education Statistics, Rates of Computer and Internet Use by Children in Nursery School and Students in Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade: 2003 . Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005111.

National Center for Education Statistics, Teacher Use of Computers and the Internet in Public Schools. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000090.

National Center for Education Statistics, Young Children's Access to Computers in the Home and at School in 1999 and 2000. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003036.

High School Completion

National Center for Education Statistics, Public High School Dropouts and Completers From the Common Core of Data. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pub_dropouts.asp.

National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/.

Undergraduate Education

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), University of California at Los Angeles. The American Freshman: National Norms. Available at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/american_freshman.html.

National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/.

National Center for Education Statistics, Postsecondary Participation Rates by Sex and Race/Ethnicity: 1974–2003 . Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005028.pdf.

Educational Persistence and Attainment

National Center for Education Statistics, Coming of Age in the 1990s: The Eighth-Grade Class of 1988 12 Years Later. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002321.

National Center for Education Statistics, Competing Choices: Men's and Women's Paths After Earning a Bachelor's Degree. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001154.

National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/.

National Center for Education Statistics, Educational Achievement and Black-White Inequality. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001061.

National Center for Education Statistics, Entry and Persistence of Women and Minorities in College Science and Engineering Education. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000601.

National Center for Education Statistics, Public High School Dropouts and Completers From the Common Core of Data: School Years 1991–92 through 1997–98. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002317.

National Center for Education Statistics, Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Path to a Postsecondary Credential. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003005.

National Center for Education Statistics, The Influence of High School Racial Composition on Black College Attendance and Test Performance. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=78212.

National Center for Education Statistics, Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/equity/.

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Educational Attainment Data. Available at http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html.

Minority Education

American Council on Education, Minorities in Higher Education 2003–04. Available at http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CAREE&CONTENTID=11272&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm.

National Center for Education Statistics, American Indians and Alaska Natives in Postsecondary Education. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98291.

National Center for Education Statistics, Educational Achievement and Black-White Inequality. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001061.

National Center for Education Statistics, Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives . Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005108.

National Center for Education Statistics, Status and Trends in the Education of Blacks . Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003034.

National Center for Education Statistics, Status and Trends in the Education of Hispanics. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/hispanics.

National Center for Education Statistics, The Influence of High School Racial Composition on Black College Attendance and Test Performance. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=78212.

Students With Disabilities

National Center for Education Statistics, An Institutional Perspective on Students With Disabilities in Postsecondary Education. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=1999046.

National Center for Education Statistics, Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Enrollment, Services, and Persistence. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000092.

National Center for Education Statistics, What Are the Barriers to the Use of Advanced Telecommunications for Students With Disabilities in Public Schools? Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000042.

The George Washington University, HEATH Resource Center, 2001 College Freshmen With Disabilities: A Biennial Statistical Profile. Available at http://www.heath.gwu.edu/PDFs/collegefreshmen.pdf.

Minority-Serving Institutions

National Center for Education Statistics, Hispanic Serving Institutions: Statistical Trends From 1990 to 1999. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002051.

National Center for Education Statistics, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1976 to 2001 . Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004062.

International Participation in S&E

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Education at a Glance (annual) contains data on education by sex and country. Available at http://www.oecd.org/document/11/0,2340,en_2825_495609_33712011_1_1_1_1,00.html.

The World Bank Group, GenderStats electronic database of gender statistics on enrollment and attainment by sex and country. Available at http://genderstats.worldbank.org.

Employment and Faculty

National Center for Education Statistics, The Gender and Racial/Ethnic Composition of Postsecondary Instructional Faculty and Staff,1992–98. Available at
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002160.

National Center for Education Statistics, 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04) Report on Faculty and Instructional Staff in Fall 2003 . Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005172.

National Research Council, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Female Engineering Faculty at U.S. Institutions: A Data Profile. Available at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6130.html.

National Research Council, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers. Available at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5363.html.

Nelson, D. J., The Nelson Diversity Surveys (tables with number of faculty, by sex, race/ethnicity, and rank at top 50 institutions, by field). Available at http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/faculty/djn/diversity/top50.html.

RAND Corporation, Gender Differences in Major Federal External Grant Programs. Available at http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR307/.

University of California, Los Angeles, Higher Education Research Institute, Faculty Survey. Available at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/faculty.html.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal employment statistics, by occupational group, sex, race/ethnicity, and disability status. Available at http://www.opm.gov/feddata/index.asp.

Science and Engineering Fields

All fields

Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology. http://www.cpst.org.

Chemistry

American Chemical Society. http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/career.html? DOC=careers\facts.html.

Computer science

Computing Research Association. http://www.cra.org/main/cra.info.html.

Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education. http://www.asee.org/colleges.

Engineering Workforce Commission. http://www.ewc-online.org/.

Geosciences

American Geological Institute. http://www.earthscienceworld.org/careers/stats/demograp.html.

Mathematics

American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org/employment/surveyreports.html.

Physics

American Institute of Physics. http://www.aip.org/statistics.

Political science

American Political Science Association. http://www.apsanet.org/section_416.cfm.

Psychology

American Psychological Association. http://research.apa.org.

Sociology

American Sociological Association. http://www.asanet.org.