Aineiston nimi

Doctoral Graduates of Year 2016: Career and Employment Survey 2019

Aineistonumero

FSD3451

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3451

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland

Muut tekijät

• Ollikainen, Jyrki (Tampere University. Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. Statistics)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey charted the careers and employment situations of Finnish doctoral graduates three years after they had obtained their degree in 2016. Themes of the survey included impact of a doctoral degree on employment, job satisfaction and development suggestions for doctoral education.

The respondents were first asked to what extent different reasons had impacted their decision to take up a doctoral degree, and how they had financed their studies. They were asked to estimate the share of time they had spent on their doctoral dissertation alongside other work. Relating to employment situation and quality of work, questions charted how the degree had affected the respondents' status in the job market and what their occupational status was at the time of the survey and what it had been 6 months before starting the degree and 6 months after finishing it. The respondents were asked if they had been unemployed after finishing their degree, and reasons were charted that potentially had hindered their employment. The respondents who were in paid work were asked the type of their current work tasks and the competences needed in their work. It was also examined whether a doctoral degree was a prerequisite for their current job, how well the respondents' work corresponded to their qualifications, and whether their work was related to the topic of their doctoral dissertation. Gross monthly income was also charted.

With regard to the significance of a doctoral degree in occupational life, general satisfaction with the degree was charted along with opinions on whether doctoral education was useful when it came to different types of competences needed in occupational life. Relating to developing and improving doctoral education, views were probed on things that should be emphasised in the education (e.g. skills related to teaching, entrepreneurship, management, popularisation of research results, career planning, presentation skills).

Background variables included the respondent's gender, field of study, and age at the time of graduation (dichotomised "under 36"/"36 and over").

Asiasanat

appointment to job; career development; educational certificates; employment opportunities; higher education institutions; labour and employment; labour force; post-graduates; tertiary education (second stage)

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Higher and further education (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Employment (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Career and Employment Survey of Finnish University Graduates

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland

Ajallinen kattavuus

2016 – 2019

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2019-10 – 2019-11

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Doctoral graduates of 2016 from Finnish universities (poislukien National Defence University)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The graduates were contacted by SMS or post. In addition, alumni in the universities' alumn register were reached by e-mail.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

44.7

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Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

To prevent identification of respondents, the following variables were categorised during archiving: bv3 (age), q11 (income) and bv8 (field of study).

The data do not include variables q3 (municipality where job is located), q5 (name of employer), q6 (job title), q15 (open-ended question on future occupational competences). In addition, open-ended responses are not included.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland: Doctoral Graduates of Year 2016: Career and Employment Survey 2019 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2020-07-14). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3451

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

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

Käytön ja kuvailun oheismateriaalit

News release on the survey 30 September 2019 [web]. https://www.aarresaari.net/tiedote_3092019 [cited 11 August 2020].

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