Information on Individual SESTAT Elements
SESTAT Data Element: N_ED_SINCE_MR_ENROLL_REAS_PERSONL
SAS Variable Name: TCINT
Description:
Reasons For Taking Courses: Personal Interest
Question:
Reasons took college courses between completing your most recent degree and the week of April 15, [survey year]? (Response to "For leisure/personal interest")
Domain:
1993
Took course between most recent degree and April 15, 1993
1995
Took course between most recent degree and April 15, 1995
1997
Took courses/enrolled in college/university between April 1995 and April 1997
1999
Took courses/enrolled in college/university between April 1997 and April 1999
2001
Took courses/enrolled in college/university between April 1999 and April 2001
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 |
x |
|
|
x |
x |
|
1995 |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
1997 |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
1999 |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
2001 |
|
|
x |
x |
|
|
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: D08.h
NSRCG: A17.h
SDR: D06.h
1995
NSCG: D09.8
NSRCG: A17.h
SDR: D08.8
1997
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: D09.8
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): .
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): .
NSRCG: A21a.h
SDR: D08.8
1999
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: D09.8
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): D09.h
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): D09.h
NSRCG: A21a.h
SDR: D08.8
2001
NSCG: Survey not conducted
NSRCG: A20.h
SDR: D08.8
Quality and other technical information related to this item:
1993
Research indicated these response categories were moderately unreliable. The "Other-Specify"
response category was used by 25 percent of NSCG respondents, 2 percent of SDR, and 4 percent
of NSRCG respondents. Most of these responses were back-coded to category 'a' ("to further my
education before beginning a career"). Item nonresponse for the filter question, D7, was 1.5
percent for the NSCG and SDR and less than one percent for the NSRCG. Since D8 asked respondents
to mark "yes" or "no" for each of nine response categories, some respondents only marked "yes"
responses, converting this into a "mark all that apply" question. Consequently, item nonresponse
for the NSCG data was high prior to applying the editing rules.
Topic Areas associated with this data element:
Keywords associated with this data element:
CERTIFICATE
COLLEGE
COLLEGE COURSES
DEGREE
DIPLOMA
EDUCATION
FURTHER SCHOOLING
SCHOOLING
SEMINARS
TRAINING
UNIVERSITY COURSES
WORK-RELATED TRAINING
WORKSHOPS
Updated: April 22, 2004