Identifying Socioeconomic Status Factors in the National Household Education Surveys

• In Event: Poster Session 15
  In Poster Session: Applied Statistical Analysis of Large-Scale Data

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop conceptually and psychometrically rigorous measures of socioeconomic status (SES) for the National Household Educational Surveys (NHES). The NHES surveys have much to offer educational researchers interesting in studying pre-primary education, child care utilization, school safety and discipline, and adult education and lifelong learning, especially if rigorous measures of SES are available. However, no previous research has attempted to construct measures of SES for these surveys. Doing so should increase the appeal of this database to the educational research community.

Authors

• Ronald Brown, University of Minnesota

• Michael R. Harwell, University of Minnesota