2003-04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04): Undergraduate Data Analysis System.

The NPSAS:04 Undergraduate Data Analysis System (DAS) contains data on a sample of about 80,000 undergraduates who were enrolled at any time between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004, in about 1,400 postsecondary institutions. It represents all undergraduate students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico eligible to participate in the federal financial aid programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The survey focuses on how they and their families pay for postsecondary education and includes general demographics and other characteristics of these students, types of aid and amounts received, and the cost of attending college.

The DAS is a software application that allows users to produce tables and correlation matrices from NCES datasets, mainly postsecondary data. There is a separate DAS for each dataset, but all have a consistent interface and command structure.

For questions about this data product, contact Aurora D'Amico (aurora.d'amico@ed.gov).

To obtain this data product (NCES 2005-164), visit the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).