Information on Individual SESTAT Elements
SESTAT Data Element: J_ED_BA_DEGREE_AWARD_YR
SAS Variable Name: BAYR
Description:
Year of First Bachelor Degree
Question:
FIRST BACHELOR'S DEGREE: In what month and year was this degree awarded? (Response to "Year")
Domain:
1993
Has bachelor or higher degree
1995
Completed a degree or certificate between April 1993 and April 1995
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 |
|
|
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: D06...b.YY
NSRCG: A11...b.YY
SDR: SED
1995
NSCG: D05YY
NSRCG: A11B.YY
SDR: D04.YY
1997
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: D05.YY
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): .
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): .
NSRCG: A11…b.YY
SDR: D05.YY
1999
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: D05.YY
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): D06.YY
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): D03b.YY or D07b.YY
NSRCG: A11…b.YY
SDR: D05.YY
2001
NSCG: Survey not conducted
NSRCG: A09…b.YY
SDR: D05.YY
Quality and other technical information related to this item:
1993
The reinterview data indicated good reliability for both "month" and "year", but "year" was the most
reliable (gross difference rate (GDR) equals 9). Since "month" is more difficult to recall than
"year", item nonresponse was higher for "month" on the unedited mail data--in the 5 to 6 percent
range for the NSCG but less than one percent for the NSRCG.
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:
J- First Bachelor's Degree (BA)
Keywords associated with this data element:
CERTIFICATE
COLLEGE
DEGREE
DIPLOMA
EDUCATION
SCHOOLING
Updated: April 22, 2004