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Jennifer Wine; Beth Hustedt; Jennifer Cooney; Erin Thomsen – National Center for Education Statistics, 2023
This report describes the design, methods, and results of the 2016/20 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/20) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It is the second follow-up with a cohort of bachelor's degree recipients originally identified during the 2015-16 National…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, College Graduates, Bachelors Degrees, College Students
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Chidi, Christopher O.; Shadare, Oluseyi A. – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
This study investigated the influence of host community on industrial relations practices and policies using Agbara community and Power Holding Company of Nigeria PLC as a case. The study adopted both the qualitative and quantitative methods. A total of 120 samples were drawn from the population using the simple random sampling technique in which…
Descriptors: Testing, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Sampling
McCowan, Richard J.; Mongerson, M. Duane – 1971
This survey analyzed the attitudes and educational and occupational patterns of 1969 high school graduates from vocational programs. Over half of a stratified random sample of nearly 3,000 graduates responded to the questionnaire after four followups. Summary data were grouped into five categories: (1) geographic distribution, (2) general…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Employment Patterns, Graduate Surveys
Tella, Alfred – 1976
For one important set of data, namely, the data on unemployment and employment collected by the Census Bureau in its monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), some information on nonsampling error is available that can be used to evaluate the regularly reported labor force figures. The paper is concerned with the nonsampling error that relates…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Census Figures, Data Analysis, Employment Level
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Herr, Elizabeth – Historical Methods, 1995
Utilizes 19th-century census figures to reveal a more accurate and richer picture of womens' participation in the frontier work environment. Although the occupational classifications accurately reflected the rise of an industrial economy, they ignored womens' entrepreneurial rural efforts. Presents statistical data to rectify this situation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Interpretation, Economic Impact, Economic Status