CIRP Freshmen Survey

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CIRP survey of the american freshmen conducted in 2014. Contains student's opinions on various matters as well as information about institutions participating in a survey. Data comes from The Coopera...

File	Description	Size	Download
freshmen-survey	Survey of Full-Time Freshmen by Institutional Type	74.3 kB	data/freshmen-survey.csv
institutions	Institutions Participating in the 2014 CIRP Freshman Survey	16.7 kB	data/institutions.csv
standard-errors	Estimated Standard Errors of Percentages for Comparison Groups of Various Sizes	1.4 kB	data/standard-errors.csv

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CIRP survey of the american freshmen conducted in 2014. Contains student's opinions on various matters as well as information about institutions participating in a survey.

Data

Data comes from The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA https://www.heri.ucla.edu/monographs/TheAmericanFreshman2014.pdf

It consists of several types of information:

Information obtained from the survey of freshmen about their opinions, politics,race, wealth, social status etc in file freshmen_survey.csv
Information about institutions participating in the 2014 CIRP Freshman Survey in file institutions.csv
Estimated standard errors of percentages for comparison groups of various sizes in file standard_errors.csv

Preparation

The script works with python 3. To install required modules run

pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt

Also make note that java must also be installed on the system. To get the final data, use script process.py to extract resources from the file TheAmericanFreshman2014.pdf. The script splits the document into pages and parses tables which are then merged into three resources.

to get freshmen_survey.csv, institutions.csv, standard_errors.csv
scripts/process.py

License

Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

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