Faculty Retirement in the Arts and Sciences: Source Data for 33 United States Colleges and Universities, 1985-1990 (ICPSR 9818)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Albert Rees, Princeton University; Sharon P. Smith, Princeton University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09818.v1

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Summary

These data were compiled to permit analysis of issues surrounding delayed faculty retirement at doctorate-granting universities and selected liberal arts colleges. Variables in Part 1, the Transaction Data File, include school identification number, type of school, year of transaction event (retirement), age of faculty member after event occurred, academic discipline of faculty member, presence of mandatory retirement age, five-year age range of event, and type of pension plan in which faculty member was enrolled. Variables in Part 2, the Age Distribution Data file, include observation number, school code, academic discipline grouping, and type of school.

Citation

Rees, Albert, and Smith, Sharon P. Faculty Retirement in the Arts and Sciences:  Source Data for 33 United States Colleges and Universities, 1985-1990. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09818.v1

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Funding

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1985 -- 1990

Date of Collection

1985 -- 1990

Data Collection Notes

  1. Documentation for this collection is provided in the SAS and SPSS Control Cards as comments.

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Sample

Nonrandom sample of research and doctorate-granting universities and liberal arts colleges that agreed to participate.

Universe

All tenured faculty in doctorate-granting institutions and liberal arts colleges in the United States.

Data Source

official college or university records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1992-10-31

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:
  • Rees, Albert, and Sharon P. Smith. Faculty Retirement in the Arts and Sciences: Source Data for 33 United States Colleges and Universities, 1985-1990. ICPSR09818-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09818.v1

2006-01-18 File SP9818.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1992-10-31 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:

  • Standardized missing values.
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