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Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the United States 1995 Profile (1998)
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Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the United States

TABLE 4 Employment Status of Science and Engineering Ph.D.s, by Field of Doctorate, 1995 (in percent)

	Field of Doctorate
Employment Status	All Fields	Computer Sciences	Mathematical Sciences	Chemistry	Physics and Astronomy	Earth/Atmospheric/Marine Sciences	Agricultural/Environmental Sciences	Biological Sciences	Health Sciences	Social Sciences	Psychology	Engineering
Total Population (No.)	542,500	6,600	25,200	61,400	38,700	16,500	22,400	109,900	16,900	75,800	82,200	87,000
Full-Time Employed ^*	84.1	96.5	86.3	81.7	84.9	83.2	82.2	84.7	85.9	83.6	80.5	87.4
Part-Time Employed ^*	5.2	1.4	4.4	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.9	3.8	5.5	5.6	11.8	3.0
Not Employed ^**	10.6	2.1	9.3	14.4	11.1	12.9	13.9	11.4	8.6	10.8	7.7	9.6
Seeking Employment	1.4	0.9	1.6	1.9	1.4	1.7	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.0	0.6	1.6
Retired	7.5	0.0	6.5	10.8	8.2	9.3	11.1	7.2	5.6	8.0	4.9	7.0
Not Seeking Employment	1.8	1.3	1.3	1.7	1.6	1.8	1.3	2.7	1.6	1.8	2.3	0.9
NOTE: Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred; therefore, subcategories may not add to total. ^Includes those who held postdoctoral appointments. ^*Percentages are not unemployment rates because they are based on the total population, which includes those retired and those not seeking employment; none of these is considered part of the labor force in this report. Unemployment rates are shown in Table 7. SOURCE: National Research Council/National Science Foundation, Survey of Doctorate Recipients, 1995.