Codebooks provide comprehensive documentation for your survey data, including all questions, response scales, derived variables, variable names, response options, and coding details. This includes both institution-supplied data and variables related to survey administration.
NSSE codebooks align with the final data files delivered in the summer and include variables—such as Engagement Indicators (EIs), recoded items, and derived variables—not available in the early raw data files released in the spring. Like the NSSE data itself, codebooks may be updated until the Institutional Report is finalized in August.
Folders containing codebooks from the most recent administration (in accessible MS Word format) are linked below. For codebooks from previous years please contact us.