State Education Contextual Data Resource (S-ECDR)

The State Education Contextual Data Resource (S-ECDR) is a historical dataset that compiles state-level indicators of public education systems in the United States from 1919/20 through 1973/74. The dataset includes measures related to public school financing, teacher characteristics, school and classroom contexts, and segregation and desegregation in the U.S. South. Data were drawn from four historical sources: the Biennial Surveys of Education, the Statistics of State School Systems, a 1967 Southern Education Reporting Service report, and U.S. Census Abstracts. <br><br>The dataset was created to support research on how early-life education contexts influence long-term outcomes in adulthood, particularly for cohorts who attended school during a period of significant expansion in U.S. public education. S-ECDR includes indicators that enable comparisons of state-level education investment, teacher workforce composition, and access to education across time and geographic region. The resource is designed to facilitate linkage to individual-level surveys containing state and year identifiers, enabling analysis of how historical education environments shaped later-life well-being.