GSS Public Use Data Files

Latest Year Available: 2010

Data from the Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering are made available in public use data files. The files include publicly releasable data for each survey year from 1972 through 2010.

The file organization makes each year's institution, school, and organizational unit data available in a single record. The files also allow researchers to link to other institutional data sources. Public-use data are available by year, and are available in multiple formats (Excel, SAS, SPSS, and CSV).

The data files are provided here as compressed .zip files. Use an archive utility program that supports the .zip format to uncompress the files you download to your computer. See the Guide to Public Use Data Files available in Microsoft Word (687K) and Adobe PDF (559K) for a detailed description of the data files.

• Appendix A (34K) (Data Element Availability by Year)
• Appendix B (134) (The variable list is grouped similarly to the GSS survey worksheet, by question)

Because of the large number of columns in the Excel files, the data have been divided among three worksheets: Race, Support, and PostDoc.

Year	Excel	.xls size	SAS	.sas size	SPSS	.spss size	CSV	.csv size
2010		5 MB		1.8 MB		2.0 MB		1.3 MB
2009		5 MB		1.8 MB		2.0 MB		1.3 MB
2008		5 MB		1.8 MB		2.0 MB		1.3 MB
2007		5 MB		1.7 MB		1.9 MB		1.2 MB
2006		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.8 MB		1.1 MB
2005		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.8 MB		1.1 MB
2004		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.8 MB		1.1 MB
2003		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.8 MB		1.1 MB
2002		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.8 MB		1.1 MB
2001		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.7 MB		1.1 MB
2000		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.7 MB		1.1 MB
1999		4 MB		1.5 MB		1.6 MB		1.1 MB
1998		6 MB		1.7 MB		1.9 MB		1.2 MB
1997		6 MB		1.7 MB		1.9 MB		1.2 MB
1996		6 MB		1.7 MB		1.9 MB		1.2 MB
1995		6 MB		1.7 MB		2.0 MB		1.2 MB
1994		6 MB		1.7 MB		2.0 MB		1.2 MB
1993		5 MB		1.6 MB		1.8 MB		1.1 MB
1992		5 MB		1.5 MB		1.8 MB		1.0 MB
1991		5 MB		1.5 MB		1.7 MB		1.0 MB
1990		4 MB		1.4 MB		1.7 MB		1.0 MB
1989		4 MB		1.4 MB		1.6 MB		1.0 MB
1988		4 MB		1.4 MB		1.6 MB		0.9 MB
1987		4 MB		1.3 MB		1.5 MB		0.9 MB
1986		4 MB		1.2 MB		1.5 MB		0.8 MB
1985		4 MB		1.2 MB		1.5 MB		0.8 MB
1984		4 MB		1.2 MB		1.4 MB		0.8 MB
1983		4 MB		1.3 MB		1.6 MB		0.9 MB
1982		4 MB		1.4 MB		1.6 MB		0.9 MB
1981		4 MB		1.4 MB		1.6 MB		0.9 MB
1980		4 MB		1.4 MB		1.7 MB		0.9 MB
1979		4 MB		1.2 MB		1.4 MB		0.8 MB
1978		2 MB		0.8 MB		0.9 MB		0.5 MB
1977		3 MB		1.1 MB		1.4 MB		0.7 MB
1976		3 MB		1.1 MB		1.3 MB		0.7 MB
1975		3 MB		1.1 MB		1.3 MB		0.7 MB
1974		2 MB		0.9 MB		1.0 MB		0.6 MB
1973		2 MB		0.7 MB		0.9 MB		0.5 MB
1972		1 MB		0.7 MB		0.6 MB		0.4 MB

To have public use data files forwarded via email, please email RTI at gss@rti.org requesting the desired survey year data files.

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