DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06377.v1
title: Recent College Graduates Survey, 1976-1977: [United States]
title: Version 1

description: 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 relationships among 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.
description: A two-stage stratified sampling approach was employed. The 
 first stage consisted of drawing a sample of bachelor's and master's 
 degree-granting institutions from Higher Education General Information 
 Survey (HEGIS)/Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 
 completions files. Institutions were stratified by control (public or 
 private), by region, and by the proportion of degrees awarded in the 
 field of education (over or under a specified number). Within each of 
 these strata, institutions were selected according to size (size being 
 measured by the sum of bachelor's and master's degrees awarded that 
 year). The second stage consisted of the selection of a core sample of 
 graduates (bachelor's and master's degree recipients) who received 
 their degrees from the sampled institutions during the 1976-1977 
 academic year. Sampling rates of graduates differed by major field of 
 study. The institution sample consisted of 300 institutions of which 30 
 were Historically Black Colleges (HBCs). The graduate sample was 
 stratified by degree received and major field of study (vocational 
 education, special education, other education, and noneducation). Data 
are representative at the national level.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Recent College Graduates Survey, 1976-1977: [United States]
description: Students within one year of attaining a bachelor's or a 
master's degree from an American college or university.
description: The codebook and data collection instrument are
 provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF
 file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be
 accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat
 Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is
provided on the ICPSR Web site.