degreesawarded: Degrees Awarded by Year

In statprograms: Graduate Statistics Program Datasets

Degrees Awarded by Year

Description

This dataset contains the number of degrees awarded per year. It's based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics as retrieved by Steve Pierson. See https://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2014/07/28/categorization-of-statistics-degrees for more information.

Usage

degreesawarded

Format

A data.frame with 4606 observations and 5 columns. The columns are defined as follows:

school

The college

program_category

The program type categorized as either "Statistics" or "Biostatistics"

degree_category

The degree categorized as either "Master" or "Doctorate"

year

The year the degrees were awarded

count

The number of degrees awarded

Source

"Statistics and Biostatistics Degree Data.", https://www.amstat.org/education/statistics-and-biostatistics-degree-data

Examples

## Not run: 
data(degreesawarded)
summary(degreesawarded)

# In wide format as provided by Steve Pierson
library(tidyr)
spread(degreesawarded, key = year, value = count)

## End(Not run)

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