college_grads: Basic earnings and labor force information for recent college...
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Description
Usage
Format
Source
Description
A dataset containing basic earnings and labor force information by sex
and by the type of job the graduate got. Major categories are based on
Carnevale et al, "What's It Worth?: The Economic Value of College Majors."
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2011. The
dataset was used in a fivethirtyeight.com article titled, "The Economic
Guide to Picking a College Major"
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economic-guide-to-picking-a-college-major/
and provided through the site's GitHub account.
Usage
1
Format
A data frame with 173 rows and 19 variables:
- Major_code
Major code, FO1DP in ACS PUMS
- Major
Major description
- Total
Total number of people with major
- Men
Male graduates
- Women
Female graduates
- Major_category
Category of major from Carnevale et al
- Major_category2
More general category of major used for illustrative purposes
- Sample_size
Sample size (unweighted) of full-time, year-round ONLY (used for earnings)
- Employed
Number employed (ESR == 1 or 2)
- Full_time
Employed 35 hours or more
- Part_time
Employed less than 35 hours
- Full_time_year_round
Employed at least 50 weeks (WKW == 1) and at least 35 hours (WKHP >= 35)
- Unemployed
Number unemployed (ESR == 3)
- Median
Median earnings of full-time, year-round workers
- P25th
25th percentile of earnigns
- P75th
75th percentile of earnings
- College_jobs
Number with job requiring a college degree
- Non_college_jobs
Number with job not requiring a college degree
- Low_wage_jobs
Number in low-wage service jobs
Source
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/college-majors
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Description Usage Format Source
Description
A dataset containing basic earnings and labor force information by sex and by the type of job the graduate got. Major categories are based on Carnevale et al, "What's It Worth?: The Economic Value of College Majors." Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2011. The dataset was used in a fivethirtyeight.com article titled, "The Economic Guide to Picking a College Major" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economic-guide-to-picking-a-college-major/ and provided through the site's GitHub account.
Usage
1 |
Format
A data frame with 173 rows and 19 variables:
- Major_code
Major code, FO1DP in ACS PUMS
- Major
Major description
- Total
Total number of people with major
- Men
Male graduates
- Women
Female graduates
- Major_category
Category of major from Carnevale et al
- Major_category2
More general category of major used for illustrative purposes
- Sample_size
Sample size (unweighted) of full-time, year-round ONLY (used for earnings)
- Employed
Number employed (ESR == 1 or 2)
- Full_time
Employed 35 hours or more
- Part_time
Employed less than 35 hours
- Full_time_year_round
Employed at least 50 weeks (WKW == 1) and at least 35 hours (WKHP >= 35)
- Unemployed
Number unemployed (ESR == 3)
- Median
Median earnings of full-time, year-round workers
- P25th
25th percentile of earnigns
- P75th
75th percentile of earnings
- College_jobs
Number with job requiring a college degree
- Non_college_jobs
Number with job not requiring a college degree
- Low_wage_jobs
Number in low-wage service jobs
Source
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/college-majors
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