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College Access Index

The code and examples in this repository are devoted to decoding / reverse engineering / otherwise better understanding the creation of New York Times' College Access Index.

Method notes on the college access index: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/2017-college-access-index-methodology.html?mcubz=1

Latest (2017) edition of college access index: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/25/sunday-review/opinion-pell-table.html?mcubz=1

For a quick run enter the following in Stata's command line

do "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adamrossnelson/NYTColAccess/master/NYTAccessDemo.do"

No installation or downloads necessary.

Non-Stata users can use the CSV to join in on this project.

More information

Contact Adam Ross Nelson for more information. The NYT authors first established a sample of institutions with overall high graduation rates. The NYT then contacted those institutions to request data. Comprable data is publically available from the [US DOE Integrated Post Secondary Education Data System] (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/Home/UseTheData) and the [USDOE College Scorecard data set] (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/).

Further notes and notation notes at (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adamrossnelson/NYTColAccess/master/CollegeAccessIndexFormulaNotes.pdf).

ReadMe last updated: September 22 2017

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