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Academic Libraries Survey, 2002-2004
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The Academic Libraries Surveys in 2002 and 2004 were studies that are part of the Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) program; public-use program data are available since 1996 at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/aca_data.asp. ALS:2002/2004 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/academic.asp) are cross-sectional surveys that summarize services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These studies provide information pertinent to libraries at degree-granting postsecondary educational institutions.
Detailed Methodology
The fiscal year 2002 Academic Libraries Surveys (ALS) includes data on 3,887 academic libraries that are associated with degree-granting postsecondary educational institutions throughout the 50 states, and the District of Columbia.
For the Academic Library Survey of 2004, 3,653 in-scope, non-child, degree-granting Title IV receiving postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia with academic libraries in 2004 were identified. Of the 3,653 institutions, responses were received for the survey from 3,178 institutions, yielding a response rate of 87.0 percent.
Beginning in 2000, the ALS was transformed into a web-based survey. With this methodology, data are submitted by the respondents directly to the U.S. Census Bureau through the NCES web data collection application. Registration material is sent out in August, and responses are collected from October through February. The web-based collection incorporates internal consistency edit checks, range checks, and summation checks applied to prior ALS data collections. Warnings are provided to the respondent during the course of data entry when the data checking process detects a discrepancy with previously submitted data.