Employment status of 1989-90 bachelor's degree recipients 1 year after graduation, by field of study and occupational area: 1991

Table 379.

[Percentage distribution]

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                                  |      |                                                       |                                                      |
                                  |      |                 Professional/technical fields         |                  Arts and sciences                   |
                                  | All  |_______________________________________________________|______________________________________________________|
        Occupational area         |fields|          |         |           |           |Public    |          |            |        |          |          |
          in April 1991           |  of  |          |         |           |           |affairs   |          |Mathematics,|        |          |          |  Other
                                  |study | Business |         |           |  Health   |and social|Biological| computer,  | Social |Humanities|Psychology|fields\1\
                                  |      |   and    |Education|Engineering|professions|services  | sciences |and physical|sciences|          |          |
                                  |      |management|         |           |           |          |          |  sciences  |        |          |          |
__________________________________|______|__________|_________|___________|___________|__________|__________|____________|________|__________|__________|__________
                1                 |  2   |    3     |    4    |     5     |     6     |    7     |    8     |     9      |   10   |    11    |    12    |    13
__________________________________|______|__________|_________|___________|___________|__________|__________|____________|________|__________|__________|__________
                                  |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
Total ............................|  100 |      100 |     100 |       100 |       100 |      100 |      100 |        100 |    100 |      100 |      100 |      100
                                  |______|__________|_________|___________|___________|__________|__________|____________|________|__________|__________|__________
                                  |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
Employed .........................|   84 |       89 |      91 |        87 |        97 |       84 |       65 |         79 |     80 |       78 |       73 |       85
                                  |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
  Business .......................|   21 |       45 |       4 |         7 |         3 |        3 |       10 |          7 |     22 |       13 |       15 |       28
  Educators ......................|   13 |        1 |      73 |         1 |         1 |        3 |        7 |          9 |      6 |       18 |       10 |        3
  Engineers ......................|    5 |        1 |     \2\ |        61 |       \2\ |      \2\ |        1 |          5 |      1 |      \2\ |      \2\ |        4
  Health professionals ...........|    5 |      \2\ |       1 |       \2\ |        91 |      \2\ |        8 |          1 |      1 |      \2\ |        5 |        1
  Public affairs/social services .|    3 |      \2\ |       1 |       \2\ |       \2\ |       57 |        1 |        \2\ |      6 |        2 |       15 |        1
  Biological scientists ..........|    1 |        1 |     \2\ |       \2\ |       \2\ |      \2\ |        4 |        \2\ |      1 |        1 |      \2\ |      \2\
  Computer, physical scientist,   |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
    mathematician ................|    1 |        1 |     \2\ |         1 |       \2\ |      \2\ |      \2\ |          7 |    \2\ |      \2\ |      \2\ |      \2\
  Communications .................|    2 |        1 |     \2\ |         1 |       \2\ |        1 |        1 |        \2\ |      2 |        9 |        1 |       14
  Technicians ....................|    6 |        3 |     \2\ |         8 |       \2\ |      \2\ |       13 |         29 |      5 |        4 |        3 |        8
  Other...........................|    3 |        3 |       1 |         2 |       \2\ |      \2\ |        5 |          7 |      4 |        2 |        1 |      \2\
                                  |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
  Nonprofessional, nonmanagerial, |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
    and nontechnical .............|   23 |       33 |      11 |         6 |         3 |       21 |       16 |         14 |     33 |       30 |       24 |       27
                                  |      |          |         |           |           |          |          |            |        |          |          |
Unemployed\3\.....................|    4 |        5 |       2 |         3 |       \2\ |        3 |        2 |          4 |      4 |        4 |        5 |        6
Not in labor force\4\.............|   12 |        6 |       6 |         9 |         2 |       13 |       33 |         16 |     15 |       18 |       21 |        9
  Enrolled in school \5\..........|    8 |        2 |       2 |         6 |       \2\ |        4 |       29 |         13 |     11 |       12 |       16 |        5
__________________________________|______|__________|_________|___________|___________|__________|__________|____________|________|__________|__________|__________

\1\Includes agriculture and natural resources, architecture and environmental design, area and ethnic studies, communications, consumer/personal/miscellaneous services, home economics, industrial arts, law, liberal/general studies, library and archival sciences, military sciences, multi/interdisciplinary studies, personal and social development, and trade and industrial.
\2\Less than 0.5 percent.
\3\Percent looking for work.
\4\Percent not looking for work.
\5\Enrolled full-time or part-time.

NOTE.--Because of rounding, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Recent College Graduates, 1991" survey. (This table was prepared July 1993.)

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