Bailey, Thomas R.Jenkins, DavisLeinbach, Timothy2019-06-272019-06-272005-01-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90735This report summarizes statistics on access and attainment in higher education, focusing particularly on community college students, using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), which follows a nationally representative sample of individuals who were eighth graders in the spring of 1988. A sample of these respondents was surveyed through four follow-ups in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 2000. The 2000 survey collected information on both education and job outcomes of respondents. The NELS:88 database includes transcripts of individuals in the sample who enrolled in any postsecondary education.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalaccess to postsecondary educationeducational attainmentcommunity collegesCommunity College Low-Income and Minority Student Completion Study: Descriptive Statistics from the 1992 High School CohortReporthttps://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/low-income-minority-completion-study.pdf