CSAC 2025 Survey (csac2025)

The 2025 California high school senior survey project — California Education Lab (UC Davis) with the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) and the Cradle to Career Data System (C2C).

GitHub	https://github.com/chesun/csac2025
Runs on (Scribe)	/home/research/ca_ed_lab/projects/csac_survey2025 ($projdir, set in do/settings.do)
Entry point	do/main.do — runs the full pipeline (settings → clean → explore → share)
Status	Offboarding complete (2026-06-23)
Start with	README.md (the handoff guide)

What it is

A survey of every California high school senior who filed a FAFSA or CADAA (California Dream Act Application), invited by CSAC via email, focused on the financial-aid experience and the transition to college. The repo cleans the Qualtrics export, tabulates it, and ships the tabulation appendix plus the county maps / Figure 3 source data behind the two 2025 reports — the C2C Student Experience Report (published) and the CSAC 2025 Survey Report (forthcoming). It's the 2025 iteration of the 2024 and 2023 waves, reusing their conventions and much of their code.

Documentation map

• README.md — the handoff guide (start here; per-do-file I/O map, how to run, one-time setup, gotchas).
• CLAUDE.md — Claude Code workflow scaffolding (not part of the analysis).
• MEMORY.md — accumulated learnings / gotchas.
• quality_reports/, CHANGELOG.md — history and reviews.

Who to ask

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

Offboarding complete (2026-06-23)

do/main.do is fully wired and the full pipeline ran end-to-end on Scribe with no errors; run logs and shareable outputs are synced back to the repo. The handoff README.md is the authoritative guide.