National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012: Data File User's Manual

The 2012 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES:2012) Data File User's Manual provides documentation and guidance for users of the NHES:2012 data files, which include data from the Early Childhood Program Participation survey and the Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey. The manual provides information about:

• the purpose of the study;
• the sample design;
• data collection procedures;
• data processing procedures;
• response rates;
• imputation;
• weighting and standard error calculation and use;
• data considerations and anomalies;
• a guide to the data file structure;
• nonresponse bias analysis;
• data collection instruments;
• data file layout;
• comparisons of estimates from NHES:2012 to prior NHES administrations and other data sources;
• and tables of nonresponse adjustment cells and response rates.

The public-use data files are being released along with the documentation, allowing data users to run their own analyses.

Online Availability

• See NHES:2012 Data Products