Information on Individual SESTAT Elements
SESTAT Data Element: J_ED_BA_AND_ABOVE_DEGREE_NBR
SAS Variable Name: BSDGN
Description:
Number Of Bachelors Or Higher Degrees
Question:
How many college or university degrees do you have at the bachelor's level or higher?
Domain:
1993
Has bachelor or higher degree (for respondents to NSCG and NSRCG surveys)
1995
Has bachelor or higher degree; respondents to NSRCG only
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 |
|
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: D05
NSRCG: A10
SDR: Not applicable, question not asked
1995
NSCG: Not applicable, question not asked
NSRCG: A10
SDR: Not applicable, question not asked
1997
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: Not applicable, question not asked
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form A): .
NSRCG Follow-Up Panel (Form B): .
NSRCG: A10
SDR: N/C
1999
NSCG:
Regular NSCG: Not applicable, question not asked
NSRCG Follow-up Panel (Form A): Not applicable, question not asked
NSRCG Follow-up Panel (Form B): Not applicable, question not asked
NSRCG: A10
SDR: RECODE
2001
NSCG: Survey not conducted
NSRCG: A08
SDR: Not applicable, question not asked
Quality and other technical information related to this item:
1993
Reinterview data indicated this item has good reliability when the number of degrees is less than
four (consistency index equals 15, 16, and 11 percent for one, two and three degrees). With four
degrees or more, reliability decreased (consistency index equals 40 percent), but this affected
about only about two percent of the NSCG sample. Reliability decreases if the values are grouped
because the number of respondents with four or more degrees is small. Item nonresponse was very
low (1.7 percent for the NSCG and less than 1.0 percent for the NSRCG).
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