Recent College Graduates Survey, 1989-1990: CD-ROM Version [United States]

The Recent College Graduates (RCG) survey estimates the
potential supply of newly qualified teachers in the United States and
explores the immediate post-degree employment and education
experiences of individuals obtaining bachelor's or master's degrees
from American colleges and universities. The RCG survey, which focuses
heavily, but not exclusively, on those graduates qualified to teach at
the elementary and secondary levels, is designed to meet the following
objectives: (1) to determine how many graduates become eligible or
qualified to teach for the first time and how many are employed as
teachers in the year following graduation, by teaching field, (2) to
examine the relationship between courses taken, student achievement,
and occupational outcomes, and (3) to monitor unemployment rates and
average salaries of graduates by field of study. The RCG survey
collects information on education and employment of all graduates
(date of graduation, field of study, whether newly qualified to teach,
further enrollment, financial aid, employment status, and teacher
employment characteristics) as well as standard demographic
characteristics such as earnings, age, marital status, sex, and
race/ethnicity. The 1989-1990 survey (called RCG-91 because the data
were collected in 1991) contains four data files. Part 1 contains
variables from the main questionnaire and includes information on type
of degree received, teaching eligibility, certification, salary, and
whether the respondent was unemployed. Also included are transcripts
for sampled bachelor degree recipients. Part 2 contains verbatim
comments from graduates regarding fields of study, occupation, and
parents' occupations. Replicate weights are contained in Part 3, and
imputation flags are found in Part 4.