Higher Education Graduates Survey, HEGS 2012 - Egypt

Abstract
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The Higher Education Graduates Survey (HEGS) covers a random sample of university graduates aged 25-40 years from selected disciplines; namely: accounting, administration, and computer sciences who graduated during the fifteen years preceding the survey.

The survey instruments collects information on graduates' socio-economic background, household characteristics, education experience, job experience and employment history and mobility.

It also provides data on students' feedback and monitoring in both private and public institutions, labor market outcomes for graduates of these institutions and retrospective data on graduates' learning experience.

This survey, through studying the institutional framework of the higher education system, aims at reaching a tool for improving the quality of higher education.

Analysis unit
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- Individual (Higher education graduate aged 25-40 in selected disciplines)

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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The sample for the survey is extracted from recent rounds of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) with the help of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The interviewed graduates are hence a sub-sample of Egypt's LFS.

The sample of the LFS is a nationally representative sample extracted based on a two-stage stratified cluster sample and self-weighted to the extent practical. The first sampling stage selects primary sampling units from the 2006 population census at the level of the Enumeration Area (EA), stratified by governorate of residence and then by urban and rural sub-strata. The sample of EA is selected with probability proportional to size (PPS), with the number of census households. The household sample is then selected from each sample EA with equal probability, using the systematic selection method.

The survey sub-sample of the national LFS is selected based on a number of criteria since university graduates are highly heterogeneous in terms of skills and specialization. Therefore, the sample is focusing on business administration and information sciences. These specializations are selected because of the larger role played by private universities in the production of these skills. Moreover, the survey focuses on graduates aged 25-40 in these two disciplines who are currently working or have ever worked.

The final sample of the survey encompasses 1710 graduates. Out of which, 411 graduated from private higher education institutions, constituting 24% of the sample. This is a good representation, as it resonates with national statistics about private higher education in Egypt. About 75% of the respondents in the sample are male. This is due to the fact of limiting the criteria for inclusion to graduates who ever worked. The increasing de-feminization of the Egyptian labor market explains the low representation of female graduates in the sample.

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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One questionnaire form, in both Arabic and English, consisting of 5 Parts was designed to collect the survey data.

摘要
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高等教育毕业生调查（HEGS）涵盖了来自选定学科（即：会计、管理和计算机科学）的25至40岁大学毕业生随机样本；具体而言，调查对象为在过去十五年内毕业的毕业生。
调查工具收集了毕业生社会经济背景、家庭特征、教育经历、工作经历和就业历史及流动性等信息。
此外，该调查还提供了关于学生对于私立和公立机构的反馈及监控数据，以及这些机构毕业生的劳动力市场结果以及毕业生学习经历的回顾性数据。
通过研究高等教育体系的制度框架，本调查旨在为提升高等教育质量提供工具。
分析单元
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- 个人（选定学科中25至40岁的大学毕业生）
数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]
抽样程序
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调查样本从劳动力调查（LFS）的最新一轮中提取，在中央公共动员和统计机构（CAPMAS）的帮助下进行。因此，受访的毕业生是埃及LFS的一个子样本。
LFS样本是一个基于两阶段分层聚类样本的全国代表性样本，并在实际范围内进行了自我加权。第一阶段从2006年人口普查的计数区域（EA）级别选择初级抽样单位，按居住地的省政府分层，然后按城市和农村亚层分层。EA样本根据规模比例概率（PPS）进行选择，以普查家庭数量为依据。然后，从每个样本EA中以相等的概率选择家庭样本，采用系统选择方法。
由于大学毕业生在技能和专业化方面高度异质，因此调查样本基于一系列标准进行选择。因此，样本专注于商业管理和信息科学这两个专业。这些专业之所以被选中，是因为私立大学在培养这些技能中扮演了更大的角色。此外，调查重点在于这两个学科中25至40岁的毕业生，他们目前在职或曾经工作过。
调查的最终样本包括1710名毕业生。其中，411名毕业于私立高等教育机构，占样本的24%。这是一个良好的代表性，因为它与埃及私立高等教育的国家统计数据相呼应。样本中的约75%受访者是男性。这是由于限制纳入标准的毕业生曾经工作过的事实。埃及劳动力市场的去女性化趋势解释了样本中女性毕业生代表性较低的原因。
数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]
研究工具
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一种问卷表，阿拉伯语和英语两种语言，包含5个部分，旨在收集调查数据。