Information on Individual SESTAT Elements
SESTAT Data Element: R_ED_4TH_HD_DEGREE_TYPE
SAS Variable Name: D4DG
Description:
Question:
What type of degree did you receive?
Domain:
1993
Has bachelor or higher degree
1995
Has bachelor or higher degree (for respondents to NSCG and NSRCG surveys)
1997
Completed a degree or certificate between April 1995 and April 1997 (for respondents to NSCG and SDR surveys)
1999
Completed a degree or certificate between April 1997 and April 1999 (for respondents to NSCG and SDR surveys)
2001
Completed a degree or certificate between April 1999 and April 2001 (for respondents to NSCG and SDR surveys)
Categorical Values:
- To view the table of 1993 Item tallies, click here.
- To view the table of 1995 item tallies, click here.
- To view the table of 1997 item tallies, click here.
- To view the table of 1999 item tallies, click here.
- To view the table of 2001 NSRCG item tallies, click here.
- To view the table of 2001 SDR item tallies, click here.
Data Element Availability:
Survey Component Availability
SESTAT |
NSRCG |
NSCG |
SDR |
1993 |
x |
|
x |
|
|
|
|
|
1995 |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
1997 |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
1999 |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
2001 |
|
|
x |
|
|
|
x |
|
Note: an "X" in a cell indicates that the data
element is available for the designated survey component.
A blank cell indicates the data element is not available for that survey
component. For data elements that are only available for private use,
contact NSF about obtaining access to these restricted data.
Note that data from the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates is also
available on a separate CD-ROM. All the available data from this CD is included
in the on-line SESTAT 1993 NSCG public-use data file, but the CD does not follow
SESTAT variable naming conventions and does not include the detailed documentation
available for the on-line data.
Source (Survey question number):
1993
NSCG: Not applicable, question not asked
NSRCG: A11...c
SDR: SED
1995
NSCG: D04A
NSRCG: A11…c
SDR: D05
1997
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: D04A
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): .
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): .
NSRCG: A11…c
SDR: D04a
1999
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: D04A
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): D05a
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): D03a or D07a
NSRCG: A11…c
SDR: D04a
2001
NSCG: Survey not conducted
NSRCG: A09…c
SDR: D04a
Quality and other technical information related to this item:
1993
Reinterview data indicated that this item was very reliable (GDR equals 7). Approximately four
percent of respondents changed their answers. Item nonresponse for this question was less than
one percent across all surveys.
General
For the SDR, this item was not obtained directly from the survey form,
but was instead obtained from the sampling frame. The Survey of Earned
Doctorates (SED), an ongoing census of all U.S. doctorate recipients since
1942, was used to construct the sampling frame, and thus some information,
routinely collected by the SED, such as field of study and year of degree
award, was known about each respondent even before the SDR survey
data was collected.
Topic Areas associated with this data element:
R- Fourth Highest Degree (4th_HD)
Keywords associated with this data element:
CERTIFICATE
COLLEGE
DIPLOMA
EDUCATION
SCHOOLING
Updated: April 22, 2004