IPEDS Institution Comparator

Store Positioning

Store title: IPEDS Institution Comparator

Short description: Compare institutions using IPEDS-style variables from supplied files, API responses, or normalized exports, with clear variable labels, years, peer rankings, and missing-data handling.

SEO title: IPEDS Institution Comparator — official public data extraction and monitoring

SEO description: Compare institutions using IPEDS-style variables from supplied files, API responses, or normalized exports, with clear variable labels, years, peer rankings, and missing-data handling. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

Categories: DEVELOPER_TOOLS

Keywords: ipeds, institution, comparator, data qa, api testing, official/public-data actor

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
• Primary event: record-fetched at $0.00908 base
• Default max charge: $15.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. Ipeds Institution Comparator: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• record-fetched: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. Ipeds Institution Comparator: charged when record fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• event-detected: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. Ipeds Institution Comparator: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. Ipeds Institution Comparator: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

• Compare previous and current IPEDS Institution snapshots
• Monitor IPEDS Institution changes for a capped watchlist
• Build an IPEDS Institution change digest from supplied evidence
• Prioritize high-impact IPEDS Institution changes
• Export IPEDS Institution change rows for client review Compare IPEDS-style institution variables by UNITID, year, variable code, rank, and missing-data coverage.

Inputs

• unitIds
• institutionNames
• ipedsDataFiles
• ipedsCsvUrls
• variables
• years
• peerGroupName
• comparisonMode
• includeMissingDataRows
• normalizeValues
• maxInstitutions

The exact default compares public College Scorecard/IPEDS-derived enrollment and completion observations for Harvard, MIT, and Stanford captured at 2026-07-12T06:00:00Z; its source label identifies that derivation.

Outputs

• unitId
• institutionName
• year
• variableCode
• variableLabel
• value
• normalizedValue
• valueUnit
• peerGroupRank
• peerGroupPercentile
• sourceFile
• missingDataFlag
• warning

Run locally with npm test and npm run build.