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APPENDIX B: DISCUSSION OF NATIONAL FACULTY DATA BASES
APPENDIX B: DISCUSSION OF NATIONAL FACULTY DATA BASES
Pages 122-127
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Deparunent of Education; the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) , conducted by the National Research Council for the National Science Foundation and other federal sponsors; and the faculty survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (~RI)
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In 1987 and 1989, in response to concern about the retirement rates of doctorate holders, the oldest groups were retained in the sample when new doctorate recipients were added. Thus, the 1989 sample con~ned individuals who received a doctorate between January 1, 1942, and June 30, 1988 (National Research Council, 1989a; 1990b)
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The low response rate for recent surveys gave the committee additional reason for caution in using SDR results. We note that a 1989 pilot study of the effectiveness of computer-assisted telephone interviewing as a way to obtain interviews from nonrespondents to the mail survey suggests that improvement in the overall response rate is possible (National Research Council, 1990b)
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On the basis of the responses received, NCES estimated that 11,071 of the respondents met eligibility criteria as regular instructional faculty; 8,382 eligible faculty responded, for a faculty response rate of 76 percent (National Center for Education Statistics, 1990b)
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE FACULTY SURVEY The HERI was conducted in 1989 with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Exxon foundation, and individual colleges and universities. It began as a survey of faculty at 150 colleges and universities, but the investigators then invited all the 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities in the country to participate in exchange for a fee to cover reporting data back to individual institutions.
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However, the TIAA-CREF data base of participants and many state retirement system data bases do not contain any means of separating data on faculty from data on other participants in their pension plans. We recommend that pension plan providers seek ways to assist colleges and universities, policy makers, and researchers by coding data in a way that permits studies of faculty retirement behavior.
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