Disclosure history: IPEDS directory

3 committed runs, 2021 to 2023. The most recent covered 6,163 institutions.

A single run cannot tell a field that was never collected from one that was collected until recently and then stopped. Only the comparison between runs can, which is why the per-field counts behind every figure below are committed to version control on the day they are taken rather than left in a job summary.

Reporting rate by run

Each rate is the share of the institutions the field reached in that run that reported it. Institutions that suppressed the field, and institutions the requirement does not reach, leave the denominator rather than being counted as failures, so a rate here is not a share of every institution in the run.

Share of applicable institutions reporting each field, one column per committed run
Disclosure202120222023
Admissions information86.1%87.1%87.8%
Disability services information99.8%99.4%99.9%
Equity in athletics disclosure57.1%58.9%59.4%
Financial aid information86.6%87.4%87.7%
Institution web address99.9%99.9%99.9%
Net price calculator99.6%99.3%99.4%

What moved across the series

The first run beside the last, as disclosed drift states it. The movement is in the rate and never in the count: a field can shed reporters while the share of institutions reporting it rises, because institutions left the population underneath it. A movement of at least 2% is called systemic, and the methodology argues for that number rather than assuming it.

Change in each field's reporting rate between 2021 and 2023
DisclosureDirection Change in reporting rateInstitutions the field reachedSystemic
Equity in athletics disclosureGained+2.26 percentage points12 moreYes
Admissions informationGained+1.67 percentage points131 fewerNo
Financial aid informationGained+1.14 percentage points131 fewerNo
Net price calculatorLost-0.21 percentage points144 fewerNo
Disability services informationGained+0.05 percentage points131 fewerNo
Institution web addressGained+0.02 percentage points131 fewerNo

Every figure on this page is recomputed from the committed snapshots by the same code the disclosed drift command runs; the methodology states the threshold and the reasoning behind it. A field a run did not grade says so rather than reading as zero, and a rate that could not be computed says that too: an absence is never published here as a measurement.