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Historical Higher Ed Data-Palooza Part 2

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Today’s discussion might be a little less exciting than yesterday because although I now have all this cool data on finances going back to 1920, holy hell are there some difficulties coming up with way to provide a unified data series through that period. The answer is presented in figure 2. And the result is figure 3, below.

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Historical Higher Ed Data-Palooza (Part 1)

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I found some great data yesterday! It turns out that when Statscan murders a data series, it sometimes leaves traces of the old corpse on its website. Let’s start with some real pre-history: data on higher education financing from (roughly) the end of World War I to Sputnik. Boy is it interesting.

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