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3 The National Survey of College Graduates
3 The National Survey of College Graduates
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The post-1990 design continues an earlier data collection strategy of a large postcensal (baseline) survey, with smaller follow-up surveys during the remainder of the decade. Since The redesign was largely based on recommendations in a report of the Committee on National Statistics (National Research Council, 1989)
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Thus, the NSCG has a long history in which the Census Bureau has created a sampling frame based on responses to the decennial census long form at the beginning of each of the last four decades and has drawn a baseline NSCG sample from that sample frame. The baseline sample consists of long-form respondents with a bachelor's degree or higher at the time of the census.
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Access to the raw data, important for both understanding the quality of the data and for analytical uses, is severely limited because records derived from confidential decennial census records are protected by Title 13 and can be used only under specific Census Bureau supervision. Another major issue has been the lag in timing of the availability of the NSCG data because it is linked to the decennial census.
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TABLE 3-2 Yield of SESTAT-Eligible Cases from the 1993 and 2003 NSCG Characteristic 1993 NSCG 2003 NSCG Sample Size 214,643 170,800 Respondents 148,905 100,402 SESTAT-eligible 74,462 66,504 Ratio of sample size to usable cases 2.88:1 2.56:1 Ratio of respondents to usable cases 2.00:1 1.51:1 NOTE: The definition of SESTAT-eligible was expanded between 1993 and 2003 to include people with S&E-related degrees or occupations. SOURCE: National Science Foundation (2007, p.
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In a report, NSF estimates that in 2003 there were over 720,000 people in S&E occupations and nearly 790,000 people in S&E-related occupations with non-S&E degrees (National Science Foundation, 2007) . Additionally, there were estimated to be close to 1.5 million people in the SESTAT population who had only foreign degrees.
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Further research is required to determine all the factors that may have contributed to the differences. COMPARING THE LONG FORM AND THE ACS In view of the above well-known limitations of the census long form as a sample frame, NSF commissioned reviews of potential sampling frames and designs by previous National Research Council panels.
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The potential for more substantial change during the shift to the ACS is embedded in the plan to add a question on the field of a bachelor's degree to the ACS on an ongoing basis, assuming successful completion of a full-scale field test of two alternative question versions. With this question, it will be possible not only to enhance the ability of the Census Bureau to identify respondents with the characteristics of interest for sampling for the NSCG, but also to provide a base of information, both in cross-section and in time series, on the population of college graduates by field of bachelor's degree.
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