Survey of Doctorate Recipients (FSRDC Version)

The SDR includes individuals that meet the following criteria: Earned an SEH research doctorate degree from a U.S. academic institution prior to 1 July 2017; Are not institutionalized or terminally ill on 1 February 2019; and are less than 76 years of age as of 1 February 2019.

The SDR uses a trimodal data collection approach: self-administered online survey, self-administered paper questionnaire (via mail), and computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI).

The data collected in the SDR are subject to both editing and imputation procedures. The SDR uses both logical imputation and statistical (hot-deck) imputation as part of the data processing effort. Because the SDR is based on a complex sampling design and subject to nonresponse bias, sampling weights are created for each respondent to support unbiased population estimates.

Year-to-year comparisons can be made among the SDR survey cycles because many of the core questions remained the same. Small but notable differences exist across some survey years, such as the collection of occupation and education data based on more recent taxonomies. Also, because of the use of different reference months in some survey cycles, seasonal differences may occur when making comparisons across years.

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