
WELCOME TO CARE's UNDERSTANDING AMERICA STUDY EDUCATION PROJECT
The CESR Center for Applied Research in Education (CARE) poses questions to the subset of UAS panel households with at least one K-12 child. Data collection began in March 2020 when COVID initially shut down schools and has continued since. CARE’s team fields a broad range of education-specific surveys to UAS households, posing questions about children’s progress, mental health, adult respondents’ attitudes towards education policies, beliefs about the value of postsecondary education, among many other education-relevant topics. We have also occasionally included households with a pre-k child, or households with adults enrolled at the postsecondary level. We also sometimes include a random sample of UAS households without K-12 children.
This page provides access to UAS Education data, documentation, and additional information. Scroll down for downloadable data files, methodology summaries, toplines, crosstabs, and information about our research team.
TECHNICAL FILES (Datasets, Methodology, Toplines, and Crosstabs)
For each UAS Education survey, we provide 1) the analytic data file (in both stata and .csv formats), 2) a methodology document that includes toplines, and 3) a crosstabs document. They are organized below in order of fielding dates.
- UAS 658 October 2024 Education Survey Final Release (October 10, 2024 – December 8, 2024) – Direct Downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 584 December 2023 Education Survey Final Release (December 7, 2023 – January 15, 2024) – Direct Downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 567: September 2023 Education Survey Final Release (September 19, 2023 – October 29, 2023) – Direct downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline Crosstabs
- UAS 559: May 2023 Education Survey Final Release (May 24, 2023 - July 9, 2023) - Direct downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 502: December 2022 Education Survey Final Release (December 7, 2022 - January 15, 2023) - Direct downloads: Stata | CSV (codebook available here) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 479: August 2022 Education Survey Final Release (August 15, 2022 - September 12, 2022) - Direct downloads: Stata | CSV (codebook available here) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 475: July 2022 Education Survey Final Release (July 21, 2022 – August 28, 2022) – Direct downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 461: April 2022 Education Survey Final Release (April 4, 2022 - May 12, 2022) - Direct downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 351: Wave 31 – UAS Covid Followup Survey Final Release (February 1, 2022 – March 30, 2022) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 436: End Of Year Survey Final Release (December 17, 2021 - February 6, 2022) - Direct downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 414: Fall 2021 Education Survey Final Release (September 30, 2021 - November 7, 2021) - Direct downloads: Stata | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 350: Wave 30 – UAS Covid Followup Survey Final Release (September 23, 2021 - October 31, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 348: Wave 29 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (June 9, 2021 - July 21, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs ( June 09, 2021 - July 20, 2021)
- UAS 346: Wave 28 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (May 12, 2021 - June 22, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 344: Wave 27 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (April 14, 2021 - May 25, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 342: Wave 26 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (March 17, 2021 - April 27, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 340: Wave 25 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (February 17, 2021 - March 30, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 331: End of Year Survey Education Questions Final Release (December 16, 2020 - February 7, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 282: Wave 24 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (February 2, 2021 - March 3, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 280: Wave 23 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (January 20, 2021 - February 17, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) |
- Methodology and Topline (Updated section 10 education tables released February 23, 2021) | Crosstabs (Updated section 10 education tables released February 23, 2021)
- UAS 278: Wave 22 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (January 6, 2021 - February 3, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021) | Crosstabs (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021)
- UAS 276: Wave 21 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (December 23, 2020 - January 20, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021) | Crosstabs (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021)
- UAS 274: Wave 20 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (December 9, 2020 - January 6, 2021) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021) | Crosstabs (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021)
- UAS 272: Wave 19 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (November 25 - December 23, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021) | Crosstabs (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021)
- UAS 270: Wave 18 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (November 11 - December 9, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021) | Crosstabs (Updated section 10 education tables released March 23, 2021)
- UAS 264: Wave 15 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (September 30 - October 27, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 250: Wave 8 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (June 24 - July 22, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 242: Wave 4 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (April 29, 2020 – May 26, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline (updated June 30, 2020) | Crosstabs (updated June 30, 2020)
- UAS 240: Wave 3 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (April 15, 2020 – May 13, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology and Topline | Crosstabs
- UAS 235: Wave 2 – long form of the UAS Covid Survey Final Release (April 1 to April 28, 2020) - Direct downloads: STATA | CSV (registration and submission of a UAS Covid-19 Proposal form required) | Methodology
PUBLICATIONS
With at least fifteen exclusive reports about UAS results published in major media outlets, popular and education press have cited our data in the context of pressing educational policy discussions dozens of times over the last four years. Documenting education issues of national importance, we have produced over thirty public-facing reports, briefs, and blogs, as well as four peer-reviewed journal articles. We provide a full listing of articles we ourselves have authored, as well as a catalogue of others that have cited our data on our research team’s CARE.
RESEARCH TEAM
Our UAS Education team consists of experts in education research and policy, as well as survey design and analysis. When not working on UAS surveys, we conduct research and evaluations designed to increase understanding of how educational policies affect students, teachers, and schools, and whether interventions are effective, for whom, and under what conditions. You can learn more about our other work on our CARE website.
- Marshall Garland (CARE)
- Amie Rapaport (CARE)
- Anna Rosefsky Saavedra (CARE)
- Daniel Silver (CARE)
- Morgan Polikoff (USC Rossier School of Education)
- Jake Scollan-Rowley (USC Rossier School of Education )
UAS Education affiliates:
- Shira Korn Haderlein
- Michael Fienberg
Acknowledgement to include in presentations and publications based on CESR UAS education data sets
Three NSF RAPID grants (#2037179, #2120194, # 2214168), three grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and one from the Schaeffer-Peterson Foundation have supported UAS Education work. We are grateful for financial support from these four organizations.