Common Data Set

The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Thomson Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student's transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers. The CDS is a set of standards and definitions of data items rather than a survey instrument or set of data represented in a database. Each of the higher education surveys conducted by the participating publishers incorporates items from the CDS as well as unique items proprietary to each publisher. Consequently, the publisher's surveys differ in that they utilize varying numbers of items from the CDS.

• Common Data Set 2008 (Full Version, *.pdf)

• Common Data Set 2006 (Full Version, *.pdf)

• Common Data Set 2005 (Full Version, *.pdf)
  
  

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