NCES Digest of Education Statistics: Data Tables
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics
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Project Citation:
United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. NCES Digest of Education Statistics: Data Tables. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-04-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E236421V3
Project Description
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NCES Digest of Education Statistics: Data Tables
Summary:
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About the Digest of Education Statistics
The 2022 edition of the Digest of Education Statistics is the 58th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The Digest has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977–78, 1983–84, and 1985–86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). To qualify for inclusion in the Digest, material must be nationwide in scope and of current interest and value. The publication contains information on a variety of subjects in the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to data on educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends provides background for evaluating education data. The Digest contains important information on federal education funding, though more detailed information on federal activities is available from federal education program offices.
The Digest contains tables organized into seven chapters: All Levels of Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Funds for Education and Related Activities, Outcomes of Education, International Comparisons of Education, and Libraries and Use of Technology. Each chapter is divided into a number of topical subsections.
About this Dataset
"nces-digest-statistics-2025-07-13.zip" represents the tables from the Most Current Digest Tables page: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/current_tables.asp, as downloaded 2025-07-13.
The folder system has three levels. Level 1 is the chapters of the data digest. Level 2 is the subsections of the chapters. Level 3 is a folder each for each table. Each table folder contains an excel file for the table.
The top level folder contains a catalog csv with a cross walk between the folder name and the original table titles.
There is also a folder for Machine Readable tables downloaded from this page in the top level folder: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/mrt_tables.asp.
"Digest_archive.zip" has all of the digest tables in xlsx or xls from 2013, organized by year, then chapter, then subchapter.
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Microdata: Yes
Level of Analysis: Local - school district
Variables Present: Separate Document
File Layout: .csv
Codebook: Yes (1968)
Methods: Partial (see above)
Weights (with appropriate documentation): No
Publications: No
Aggregate Data: Yes
The 2022 edition of the Digest of Education Statistics is the 58th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The Digest has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977–78, 1983–84, and 1985–86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). To qualify for inclusion in the Digest, material must be nationwide in scope and of current interest and value. The publication contains information on a variety of subjects in the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to data on educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends provides background for evaluating education data. The Digest contains important information on federal education funding, though more detailed information on federal activities is available from federal education program offices.
The Digest contains tables organized into seven chapters: All Levels of Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Funds for Education and Related Activities, Outcomes of Education, International Comparisons of Education, and Libraries and Use of Technology. Each chapter is divided into a number of topical subsections.
About this Dataset
"nces-digest-statistics-2025-07-13.zip" represents the tables from the Most Current Digest Tables page: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/current_tables.asp, as downloaded 2025-07-13.
The folder system has three levels. Level 1 is the chapters of the data digest. Level 2 is the subsections of the chapters. Level 3 is a folder each for each table. Each table folder contains an excel file for the table.
The top level folder contains a catalog csv with a cross walk between the folder name and the original table titles.
There is also a folder for Machine Readable tables downloaded from this page in the top level folder: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/mrt_tables.asp.
"Digest_archive.zip" has all of the digest tables in xlsx or xls from 2013, organized by year, then chapter, then subchapter.
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Microdata: Yes
Level of Analysis: Local - school district
Variables Present: Separate Document
File Layout: .csv
Codebook: Yes (1968)
Methods: Partial (see above)
Weights (with appropriate documentation): No
Publications: No
Aggregate Data: Yes
Original Distribution URL:
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https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/current_tables.asp
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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education expenditures;
elementary education;
school libraries;
higher education;
secondary education;
educational trends;
educational change
Geographic Coverage:
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United States,
Global
Time Period(s):
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1869 – 2025
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data;
survey data
Collection Notes:
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Data downloaded 2025-07-13 and 2-25-26.
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