Science Resources Studies Division | |
DATA BRIEF |
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
Number of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers Grows by 6 percent between 1993 and 1995 |
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Female S&E doctorate holders (86.6 percent) were slightly less likely than their male counterparts (94.5 percent) to be employed full-time in 1995, but much more likely to be employed part-time (men-4.0 percent, women-11.8 percent). An equal
proportion of men and women (1.5 percent) reported themselves as not employed, but seeking employment.
Employment and Racial and Ethnic Identity Doctorate holders from racial and ethnic minorities were more likely to be employed full-time than their white counterparts in 199594.5 percent for Native Americans, 94.7 for blacks, and 95.7 percent for Asians, versus 92.3 percent for whites. Minority group doctorate holders were less likely than whites to be employed part-time, and much less likely to be retired, but somewhat more likely to be unemployed. |
Employment by Sector
Educational institutions employed over one-half (51.5 percent) of all doctoral scientists and about one-third (33.1 percent) of all Ph.D. engineers in 1995, proportions about the same as in 1993. Doctoral engineers were most likely to be employed in private-for-profit industry. In 1995, private-for-profit (including self-employed) industry employed 56.9 percent of S&Es having their doctorates in engineering fields and 32.1 percent of those with doctorates in the sciences. |
Information in this Data Brief is from the 1995 Survey of Doctorate Recipients, conducted by the National Research Council for the National Science Foundation.
For more information contact R. Keith Wilkinson (703) 306-1776, Science and Engineering Personnel Program, Division of Science Resources Studies, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 965, Arlington, VA 22230. For a free copy of Data Briefs, write to the above address, call (703) 306-1773, or send e-mail to pubs@nsf.gov. |