Featuring characteristics of racially segregated public schools at the local level for nine southern U.S. states. It includes annual panel data on enrollment, attendance, teachers, salaries, and term length, reported separately by race, from the 1940-41 to 1959-60 school years.
Use Cases
- Analyze disparities in average teacher salary reported separately by race across school districts.
- Model the relationship between enrollment by grade and average daily attendance for different racial groups.
- Examine trends in aggregate teacher salary expenditures and term length over the 20-year period.
Strengths
- Annual panel data spanning the full 20-year period from 1940-41 to 1959-60.
- Covers nine southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
- Data is reported separately by race for key school characteristics like enrollment and teacher salaries.
Limitations
- Data granularity varies, with the unit of analysis being school district or county if district data is unavailable.
- The dataset's temporal coverage ends in 1960, limiting analysis of post-desegregation periods.
- Specific row counts, column details, and sample data are not provided in the input.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data mirrors table entries in primary sources, likely from historical administrative records.
- Time Range
- 1940-41 to 1959-60 school years
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Nine southern U.S. states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia