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Table A3. | Respondent counts of full-time workers from the Recent College Graduates survey, by field of study: Selected years, 1976 through 1991 |
Field of study | Number employed full time | ||||
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1974-75 graduates in May 1976 |
1979-80 graduates in May 1981 |
1983-84 graduates in April 1985 |
1985-86 graduates in April 1987 |
1989-90 graduates in April 1991 |
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Total respondents (unweighted) | 2,464 | 5,521 | 6,799 | 15,024 | 9,451 |
Professions | 1,840 | 4,260 | 3,730 | 8,987 | 3,825 |
Arts and sciences | 514 | 811 | 2,586 | 4,869 | 2,256 |
Other | 110 | 450 | 483 | 1,168 | 3,370 |
Newly qualified to teach | 1,337 | 2,469 | 1,109 | 2,546 | 1,966 |
Not newly qualified to teach | 1,127 | 3,052 | 5,690 | 12,478 | 7,485 |
Professions | 601 | 1,841 | 2,809 | 7,043 | 2,549 |
Engineering | 80 | 270 | 601 | 915 | 411 |
Business and management | 290 | 749 | 1,532 | 2,407 | 1,598 |
Health | 72 | 252 | 387 | 3,106 | 281 |
Education1 | 141 | 464 | 146 | 521 | 188 |
Public affairs and services | 18 | 106 | 143 | 94 | 71 |
Arts and sciences | 433 | 770 | 2,430 | 4,369 | 2,006 |
Biological sciences | 83 | 116 | 243 | 380 | 179 |
Physical sciences and mathematics | 40 | 103 | 1,062 | 1,782 | 466 |
Psychology | 64 | 105 | 189 | 366 | 316 |
Social sciences | 107 | 252 | 449 | 780 | 813 |
Humanities | 139 | 194 | 487 | 1,061 | 232 |
Other | 93 | 441 | 451 | 1,066 | 2,930 |
Communications | 7 | 73 | 240 | 392 | 217 |
Miscellaneous | 86 | 368 | 211 | 674 | 2,713 |
1 Includes those who had not finished all requirements for teaching certification or were previously qualified to teach. | |||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Recent College Graduates (RCG) surveys, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1987, and 1991. |