This paper considers the feasibility of linking a student data sample with the SASS teacher and administrative data. NCES has from time to time considered linking their student-based elementary and secondary surveys to the school- and teacher-based surveys. These thoughts have usually been centered on the analytical power that such a student/teacher data set would hold. Budgetary concerns-in terms of both fiscal program budgets and burden budgets-have also been important, but the analytical justification of linking student data to teacher data has generally taken precedence. However, speculation on the feasibility of linking datasets is of particular importance now in the current climate of budgetary constraints and distrust of federal data collection among segments of the public.
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