
Cross-national comparisons of instructional time
New tables with cross-national comparisons of average numbers of hours of instruction in and out of schools.
BPS:04/09 Transcript Data Available
Data from the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09) transcripts are available for use on NCES’s web-based data analysis tool – PowerStats, and as a restricted-use data file.
Data Snapshot

18% of households with a high school student, 16% of households with a college student, and 17% of households with job-seekers used a public library in the past month to use a computer or the Internet in 2002.

Sources of public libraries’ operating income: FY 2000
Local: 77%
State: 13%
Federal: 1%
Other: 9%