National Household Education Survey 1995 (NHES:95) Questionnaires: Screener, Early Childhood Program Participation, and Adult Education. Working Paper Series

摘要

The NHES:95 is designed to cover two topical components: Early Childhood Program Participation (ECPP) and Adult Education (AE). Each of these components is related to one of the Presidents and Governors National Education Goals. The ECPP component addresses issues of importance to Goal 1, 'By the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn.' The AE component is associated with Goal 6, which states that 'By the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.' ECPP and AE were also addressed in a previous administration of the NHES in 1991. Based on that experience and on the recommendations of experts in the relevant fields, modifications to the components were made for the 1995 administration. The NHES:95 is a cross-sectional telephone survey of households with data collection occurring in January through April of 1995. Households were sampled using list-assisted random digit dialing methods. About 45,500 households were screened to identify eligible respondents.