CSAC 2024 Survey (csac_2024)

Code, outputs, and documentation for the 2024 California high school graduating senior survey — a collaboration between the California Education Lab (CEL, UC Davis), the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC), and the California Cradle-to-Career Data System (C2C). It is the 2024 iteration of the 2023 survey (sibling repo csac), whose conventions it reuses.

GitHub	https://github.com/chesun/csac_2024
Runs on (Scribe)	/home/research/ca_ed_lab/projects/csac_survey2024 (paths in do/settings.do)
Entry point	do/main.do — runs the full pipeline (settings → clean → explore → sample → share)
Status	Offboarding complete (verified pipeline run on Scribe)
Start with	README.md (the handoff guide)

What it is

A single survey wave fielded to graduating California seniors in 2024 (raw Qualtrics export dated August 2, 2024). The repo cleans the survey, tabulates it, and produces the appendix tabulation tables that back two published reports:

• CSAC 2024 Survey Report (published Apr 2025).
• C2C Student Experience Report, 2024 academic year (published Feb 2025).

The report PDFs are assembled outside this repo; this repo ships the appendix tables (tab/check/appendix_csac.doc, appendix_c2c.doc, combined appendix.doc/appendix.pdf) and the exploratory tabulations the reports draw on.

How to run

All Stata code runs on the Scribe server (restricted survey data lives there only). Edit do files locally, upload to Scribe (FileZilla/scp), and run in Stata:

do do/main.do

The pipeline stages are clean → explore → sample → share.

main.do runs the full pipeline

The entry point runs all stages in order — settings → clean → explore → sample → share — so stata-mp -b do do/main.do reproduces the analysis on Scribe.

Documentation map

• README.md — the handoff guide (per-do-file input/output map + gotchas). Read its "Gotchas for the next person" before running.
• CLAUDE.md — workflow scaffolding (not part of the analysis).

Who to ask

• Christina Sun — author (christinasun101@gmail.com / ucsun@ucdavis.edu).