National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of College Graduates, 1967-1985 Murnane, Richard career change career choice career development career history careers demographic characteristics educational background employment job change job mobility occupations teacher employment teacher salaries teachers teaching (occupation) teaching conditions ICPSR.V.A DSDR.VI RCMD.III NACDA.II This collection is based upon data from three national longitudinal surveys administered by the United States Census Bureau and is intended for research into career histories and decisions of young men and women who graduated from college between 1967 and 1985. Several research questions are explored including the following: (1) Who, among college graduates, entered teaching? (2) Of those who entered teaching, who stayed, and for how long? (3) What do teachers do when they leave teaching and from which occupations are they most likely to return to teaching? (4) Do the career patterns of teachers and potential teachers differ by race, gender, age, college major, or IQ score? (5) Have there been changes in teacher career patterns over time? This data file contains 154 variables in four categories: individual characteristics (birth year, race, IQ score, Armed Forces Qualifications Test, gender, and dependents), educational characteristics (year of graduation, major field of study), employment characteristics (employment status, job, job status, salary), and teaching status (whether the graduate taught within five years of graduation, year began teaching, career status, length of first teaching job, year left teaching, reason for leaving teaching, second teaching job length, year returned to teaching). 1992-02-17 survey data 9390 10.3886/ICPSR09390.v1 Center for Human Resource Research. The Ohio State University. NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS OF LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCE. United States 1967--1985 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).