Report
Data Sources
The report highlights key statistics drawn from several data sources. Accompanying tables provide additional details. The data sources are as follows:
- Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (2011, 2019, and 2021)
- NCSES’s National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) (2021)
- NCSES’s Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) (2021)
- NCSES’s Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) (2021) (only presented in the tables)
- National Center for Education Statistics’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) (2011–20)
- NCSES’s Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (GSS) (2017–21)