Survey on Humanities Graduate Education and Alternative Academic Careers, 2012 (ICPSR 34938)

Version Date: Jun 12, 2014

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Principal Investigator(s):
Katina Rogers, University of Virginia. Scholarly Communication Institute

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34938.v1

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Summary

The Survey on Humanities Graduate Education and Alternative Academic Careers, 2012 investigates perceptions about career preparation provided by humanities graduate programs. The study was carried out by the Scholarly Communication Institute. The SCI administered a broad survey of humanities-trained respondents who self-identify as working in alternative academic careers (non-academic, non-tenured or tenured track), as well as their employers. Part One (Main Survey (Public-Use)) of the collection contains data of humanities-trained respondents working in alternative academic careers. Respondents were asked about their degree(s), career, methods course, value of degree(s), preparedness for position, training at work, job resources, and job skills. Part Two (Employer Survey (Public-Use)) contains data from a survey of the respondents' employers. Employers were asked about their humanities employees' performance, competencies, education, preparedness, and any training the employees needed. Part Three (Main Survey (Restricted-Use)) is a restricted data file that contains an additional 58 variables not included in Part One. Variables in Part Three include variables such as race, gender, geography, birthday, marital status, and number of dependents.

Citation

Rogers, Katina. Survey on Humanities Graduate Education and Alternative Academic Careers, 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34938.v1

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Funding

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

region

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, part three of this data collection is restricted from general dissemination. To obtain this file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2012-07-10 -- 2013-10-01

Date of Collection

2012-07-10 -- 2013-10-01

Data Collection Notes

  1. For Part 1 and 2, character variables greater than 244 characters appear truncated in the data collection. ICPSR has provided these variables with complete responses in separate qualitative data Excel files. These Excel files also contain V1 Respondent ID. Please see Appendix 1 in the ICPSR Codebook for a complete list of character variables greater than 244 characters.

  2. Please note that Part 1 and Part 3 can be linked using variable V1, Respondent ID.

  3. For additional information on the Survey on Humanities Graduate Education and Alternative Academic Careers, 2012 please visit the University of Virginia Library Web site: Main Survey and Employer Survey .

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Study Design

Mixed method

Sample

Convenience and snowball.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

People with advanced humanities degrees employed in roles other than tenured or tenure-track faculty.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2014-06-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Rogers, Katina. Survey on Humanities Graduate Education and Alternative Academic Careers, 2012. ICPSR34938-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-12. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34938.v1

2014-06-12 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data are not weighted.

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Notes