2004/2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09)
BPS tracks students' paths through postsecondary education institutions located in the 50 states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico and helps answer questions of policy interest. The cohorts for each BPS study are drawn from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). Students are surveyed beginning in their first year of postsecondary education and followed up at the end of their third and sixth years after entry into postsecondary education. BPS:04/09 followed a cohort of students who started their postsecondary education for the first time during the 2003–2004 academic year at any postsecondary institution in the United States or Puerto Rico. At the conclusion of the BPS:04/09 data collection, 16,680 had enough data from the student interview or from administrative sources to be classified as BPS:04/09 study respondents.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
16,680 (participants)
Age at first data collection
≥ 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
First-time beginning postsecondary students in the 2003–2004 academic year in the United States of America.
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2003
Primary Institutions
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Department of Education
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- None
- None
- Education data
- Existing research data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
