Study title

Doctoral Graduates of Years 2004-2005: Career and Employment Survey 2007

Dataset ID Number

FSD2709

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2709
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2709

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Ollikainen, Jyrki (University of Tampere. School of Information Sciences, Statistics)

Abstract

The survey charted the employment and early careers of people who had attained doctoral graduates in Finnish universities in 2004 and 2005.

The respondents were first asked how they had financed their doctoral studies and what their reasons had been for taking up a doctoral degree. Relating to employment situation and quality of work, questions charted what the respondents' occupational status was, how well their work corresponded to their qualifications, and what reasons had potentially hindered their employment. The respondents who were in paid work were asked their employer type, tasks at work, supervisory tasks, gross monthly income, satisfaction with work, and ability to make use of skills learned in doctoral studies in their job. The respondents who had begun working for a new employer after graduation were asked how they had received the job. The respondents who had a job that was not commensurate to their qualifications were asked what had been the most important reason for accepting the job or continuing to do it.

With regard to the significance of doctoral degree in occupational life, opinions were charted on whether the topic of doctoral dissertation had been useful in employment, whether having a doctoral degree had led to an increased salary and better standing in occupational life, and whether doctoral education was useful when it came to employment and skills needed in occupational life.

Background variables included, among others, the respondent's gender, marital status, university, field of study, and age at the time of graduation.

Keywords

career; career development; doctoral degrees; employment opportunities; higher education institutions; labour and employment; occupational life; recruitment

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Higher and further education (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Career and Employment Survey of Finnish University Graduates

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Data Collector

• Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland

Time Period Covered

2004 – 2007

Collection Dates

2007-05

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Doctorate holders who had graduated from Svenska Handelshögskolan, Åbo Akademi, University of Art and Design, Tampere University of Technology, and Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Oulu, Tampere and Turku in the years 2004 and 2005

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Each university participating in the follow-up delivered the survey to its graduates.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

61

Data File Language

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The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

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Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The response rate was calculated based on the number of people who received the questionnaire. The response rate for all doctoral graduates was 58 percent.

The data are missing the responses of graduates of the University of Art and Design, which is now part of Aalto University. During archiving, variables containing in-depth information about the respondents' employers and studies were removed from the data (e.g. job title, major subject, previous degrees). Variables regarding nationality, region of residence, and number of children were removed, as well as all open-ended responses. Variables "age" and "degree starting year" were categorised, "field of study" was coarsened with regard to some smaller fields, and the largest values in the "income" variable were categorised into a single category. To prevent identification, one Doctor of Health Sciences (PhD) graduate at Åbo Akademi University was coded as a graduate at the University of Turku due to a small number of graduates at Åbo Akademi.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland: Doctoral Graduates of Years 2004-2005: Career and Employment Survey 2007 [dataset]. Data version 2.0 (2018-04-11). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2709; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2709

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Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Materials

Haapakorpi, Arja (2008). Tohtorien varhaiset urat työmarkkinoilla ja tohtorikoulutuksen merkitys työelämässä. Helsinki: Aarresaari. Tampere: Kirjapaino Hermes.

Related Publications

Haapakorpi, Arja (2008). Tohtorien varhaiset urat työmarkkinoilla ja tohtorikoulutuksen merkitys työelämässä. Helsinki: Aarresaari. Tampere: Kirjapaino Hermes.

Haapakorpi, Arja (2014). A Career Outside the Academy? Doctorate Holders in the Finnish Professional Labour Market [online]. In: Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education. The Contemporary Issues in National and Comparative Perspective. https://www.aarresaari.net/download/46/haapakorpi_2014/pdf [cited 27.11.2015]