Education survey planning & document assistance

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1. Describe your company's ability and experience managing a similar education survey project.
2. Describe your company's ability to provide the survey methodology planning services (for sampling, data collection, and post data collection operations) identified in this sources sought notice.
3. Describe your experience with developing processing specifications for editing and imputing education survey data.
4. Describe your experience with processing (editing, imputing, and reviewing), reviewing, and analyzing survey and linked administrative data. Wherever possible, place emphasis on education data from NCES school sample surveys.
5. Describe your experience working on NCES sample survey data collections and with NCES school sample survey data. Place emphasis on the following NCES studies: National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), Private School Survey (PSS), Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS), Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
6. Describe your experience with creating final data products (e.g., final data files, codebooks, Survey Documentation Reports, User's Manuals, date tables, etc.) for NCES school sample surveys. Wherever possible demonstrate knowledge of NCES formatting and publication standards.
7. Company Primary Point of Contact Name, Business Title, Email & Telephone Number.
8. Provide your NAICS codes associated the company.
9. Provide your company's Business Classification / Socio-Economic Status under NAICS Code 541990, Office Administrative Services.
10. Provide your company's DUNS and CAGE Code Number.
11. Provide your Socio-economic categories associated with the company.
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