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Field-to-Field Differences in Employment Sector The tendency to work in industry or for other types of employers varies by field. In 1990, for example, more than three-quarters of computer scientists worked in the private sector, compared with less than a third of life scientists (Table C-9).
| TABLE C-9 Type of Employer of New Recipients of Master's Degrees, by Field of Science and Engineering, 1990a
| | Employer
| Physical Sciencs
| Mathematics/ Statistics
| Computer Sciences
| Environmental Sciences
| Life Sciences
| Social Sciences
| Psychology
| Engineering
| | ALL
| 2,400
| 3,800
| 10,100
| 2,000
| 6,100
| 7,500
| 2,400
| 17,300
| | Educational institutions
| 800
| 1,600
| 800
| 200
| 2,300
| 2,400
| 700
| 600
| | | 33.3%
| 42.1%
| 7.9%
| 10.0%
| 37.7%
| 32.0%
| 29.2%
| 3.5%
| | Four-Year college/university
| 300
| 400
| 500
| 200
| 1,200
| 1,200
| 300
| 500
| | | 12.5%
| 10.5%
| 5.0%
| 10.0%
| 19.7%
| 16.0%
| 12.5%
| 2.9%
| | Other educational institution
| 400
| 1,100
| 300
| 100
| 1,100
| 1,200
| 400
| 100
| | | 16.7%
| 28.9%
| 3.0%
| 5.0%
| 18.0%
| 16.0%
| 16.7%
| 0.6%
| | Business and industry
| 1,200
| 1,700
| 7,800
| 1,200
| 1,900
| 2,700
| 900
| 13,200
| | | 50.0%
| 44.7%
| 77.2%
| 60.0%
| 31.1%
| 36.0%
| 37.5%
| 76.3%
| | Nonprofit organization
| 100
| 100
| 100
| b
| 100
| 300
| 100
| 100
| | | 4.2%
| 2.6
| 1.0%
| | 1.6%
| 4.0%
| 4.2%
| 0.6%
| | Federal government
| 100
| 200
| 400
| 200
| 600
| 700
| 100
| 1,400
| | | 4.2%
| 5.3%
| 4.0%
| 10.0%
| 9.8%
| 9.3%
| 4.2%
| 8.1%
| | State/local government
| 100
| b
| 200
| 200
| 700
| 1,000
| 100
| 600
| | | 4.2%
| | 2.0%
| 10.0%
| 11.5%
| 13.3%
| 4.2%
| 3.5%
| | Other
| 100
| 300
| 800
| 200
| 600
| 400
| 400
| 1,400
| | | 4.2%
| 7.9%
| 8.0%
| 10.0%
| 9.8%
| 5.3%
| 16.7%
| 8.1%
| | No report
| b
| b
| b
| b
| b
| b
| b
| b
| a Full-time graduate students are excluded.
b Too few cases to report.
SOURCE: Calculated from Table B-36 in NSF, 1992b.
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