Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates [US, 2010-2018]

This document describes the data that accompany the paper “Grads on the
Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates." The data contain information about the geographic locations of graduates from 2,600 public and private four-year and two-year colleges and universities in the US obtained from publicly accessible
institutional webpages from a popular professional networking site. The number of such graduates in each of 278 areas in the US for each institution is included, along with institutional identifiers and characteristics obtained from several other public sources. Various geographic crosswalks for linking the data with other geographic information are also included.

本文件详述了论文"Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates"（《奔赴职场：测算毕业生的高校专属劳动力市场》）所配套的数据集。该数据集涵盖美国2600所公立、私立四年制及两年制高等院校的毕业生地理分布信息，相关数据取自某知名职业社交网站的公开院校页面。数据集收录了每所院校在美国278个区域内的毕业生人数，同时附带从多个其他公开渠道获取的院校标识与院校特征信息。此外，数据集还包含各类用于将本数据集与其他地理信息进行关联的地理交叉映射表（geographic crosswalks）。