Data Collection

The Civil Rights Data Collection in the U.S. Department of Education (previously the OCR Elementary and Secondary School Survey) is used by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to obtain data regarding access to elementary and secondary schools and to programs and services within those schools. OCR maintains data from the 2000 and 2002 E&S Surveys on the Web, in addition to data from the 2004 Civil Rights Data Collection.

The 2004 E&S Survey contains information on 5,899 public school districts and 59,301 schools in those school districts, a sample of the nation's school districts. The sample used for the Civil Rights Data Collection, a rolling stratified sample, of approximately 6,000 districts and 60,000 schools in those districts, facilitates state and national projections of Survey data.

OCR also has time series data for public school districts reported from 1968 through 1998. Time series data are available, on CD-ROM, in SAS, for researchers needing to use a wide variety of statistical applications