Memorandum for the NCES Review Tracking System (RTS) - IPEDS Data Collection Cycle

2022–23 IPEDS Data Collection: Winter Provisional Data Release

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2022-23 Memo

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• 2021-22 Memo
• 2020-21 Memo
• 2019-20 Memo
• 2018-19 Memo

The provisional data release of the components collected during the winter collection period of the 2022–23 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) contains substantive changes in file structure or file documentation for multiple components of IPEDS compared to the previous year. Within the Student Financial Aid component there was one notable change. In Parts A and B, degree/certificate-seeking and non-degree/certificate-seeking data items were added to disaggregate financial aid award amounts. Within the Graduation Rates (GR) component the “Nonresident alien” terminology was changed to “U.S. Nonresident.” Within the Admissions (ADM) component, new admissions considerations were added and the 50^th percentile (median) for test scores was collected for the first time. In the GR and ADM components, an additional gender question was added to collect the number of students that are unable to be categorized into the binary gender categories (men/women). Details regarding these changes can be found under “Updates to the Data Collection” on the IPEDS Report Your Data website (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data#updates-to-the-data-collection), as pictured below.

The data are released to the public through the “Use the Data” portal (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data) on the IPEDS website. The IPEDS Survey Methodology is located at https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/survey-components/ipeds-survey-methodology as a resource for data users.

IPEDS is an annual, large-scale, web-based survey that collects institution-level data from postsecondary institutions in the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia) and other U.S. jurisdictions.¹ For more information about the IPEDS Survey, its 12 components, and data release procedures, visit https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/survey-components. This memorandum documents the IPEDS universe of reporting institutions and response to the winter collection period of the 2022–23 IPEDS, which was open from December 7, 2022 to February 8, 2023.

2022–23 IPEDS Universe of Institutions

The IPEDS universe is established during the fall collection period. During the 2022–23 collection year, there were 5,988 Title IV institutions, administrative offices², and U.S. service academies³ in the United States and other jurisdictions of the United States, such as Puerto Rico. For 2022–23, a total of 504 postsecondary institutions were reported exclusively by a parent institution and are not included in the universe counts. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the IPEDS universe because they are federally funded and open to the public.³

NCES statistical standards require that the potential for nonresponse bias for all institutions be analyzed for sectors for which the response rate is less than 85 percent. Because response rates were nearly 100 percent for each survey component, no such analysis was necessary.

Table 1 provides an overview of the number of institutions responding to the components that comprise the fall and winter collection periods. This table is updated after each collection period’s data release. Appendix A provides a summary of responses for the previous collection year for comparison purposes. Appendix B shows a table of institutions with a Title IV status change.⁴ Of the 144 institutions that were Title IV in 2021–22 but are no longer Title IV in 2022–23, ninety-nine were for-profit institutions.

Table 1. Summary of Response by IPEDS Survey Component, 2022–23 Data Collection