National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
  
 

NELS Codebooks
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A Selection of NELS Technical Documentation - from the NELS88 Home Page at NCES (BY-F2):

NELS Base Year (BY) Codebooks:
NELS:88 Base Year Sample Design Report (pdf file)
National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88/94) Methodology Report
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Base Year Student Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Base Year Parent Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Base Year Teacher Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Base Year School Component Data File
Sample Exclusion in NELS:88 - Characteristics of Base Year Ineligible Students; Changes in Eligibility Status After Four Years
Psychometric Report for the NELS:88 Base Year Test Battery

NELS First Follow-up (F1) Codebooks:
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 First Follow-Up Student Component Volume I
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 First Follow-Up Dropout Component Data Files
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 First Follow-Up Teacher Component Data Files
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 First Follow-Up School Component Data Files
NELS:88 First Follow-Up Final Technical Report

NELS Second Follow-up (F2) Codebooks:
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Second Follow-up: Student Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Second Follow-Up: Dropout Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Second Follow-Up: Parent Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Second Follow-Up: Teacher Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Second Follow-Up: School Component Data File
USER'S MANUAL: NELS:88 Second Follow-Up: Transcript Component Data File

NELS Miscellaneous Codebooks:
Psychometric Report for the NELS:88 Base Year Through Second Follow-up
Quality of Responses of Eighth Grade Students to Questionnaire Items
NELS:88 Survey Item Evaluation Report

NELS Fourth Follow-up (F4) Codebooks (NCES)
Base Year to Fourth Follow-up Data File User's Manual (pdf file)