NCES Crime & Safety Surveys Tables Library

<b>About SSOCS<br></b>The School Survey on Crime and Safety is a national survey of principals in U.S. public elementary, middle, and high schools. The survey covers topics such as:Frequency and types of crimes occurring at schoolDisciplinary actions allowed and used in schoolsPolicies and practices designed to prevent or reduce crime in schoolsCharacteristics of school climate related to safetyThe SSOCS was first conducted in the 1999-2000 school year. Data has been collected every other school year from 2004 to 2010 and from 2016 to 2020. The SSOCS data collection in the 2021-22 school year is the final planned collection.<br><br><b>About SCS<br></b>The School Crime Supplement (SCS) is part of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which is led by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) at the U.S. Department of Justice. NCES collaborates with BJS to survey students ages 12 to 18 years old in grades 6 through 12 about crime and safety at school and in the surrounding neighborhood.The SCS asks students about topics such as:Fighting, bullying, and hate-related behaviorPrevalence of guns and weaponsGangs at schoolAvailability of alcohol and drugs at schoolFear and avoidance behaviorsThe SCS was first conducted in 1989, followed by administrations in 1995 and 1999, and was conducted every other year thereafter, from 2001 to 2019. Data collection was postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in 2022. The next collection of SCS is scheduled for 2025.<br><br><b>Data Organization<br></b>The categories from the original tables library are represented as folders. Each table has its own folder within the category folders. Each table has an excel (XLS) and excel SE file associated with it. The catalog CSV in the top level folder provides a crosswalk between the original table names and the current folder names.<br><br>Additionally, there are folders for Questionnaires and Reports from the SCS and SSOCS, which were downloaded from the NCES website. There is also a folder of SSOCS data users manuals, also downloaded from the NCES resource library. The SCS users manuals are already available in ICPSR, see listing here: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/crime/scs/data/.