TABLE A-6. Response rates for science, engineering, and health organizational units: 1975–2012 |
Complete response | Partial response | Nonresponse | |||||
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Year | Total | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
1975a | 9,162 | 8,998 | 98.2 | NA | NA | 164 | 1.8 |
1976 | 9,275 | 9,148 | 98.6 | NA | NA | 127 | 1.4 |
1977 | 9,513 | 9,432 | 99.1 | NA | NA | 81 | 0.9 |
1978b | 8,242 | 8,077 | 98.0 | NA | NA | 165 | 2.0 |
1979 | 9,796 | 9,446 | 96.4 | NA | NA | 350 | 3.6 |
1980 | 9,930 | 9,593 | 96.6 | NA | NA | 337 | 3.4 |
1981 | 9,917 | 8,594 | 86.7 | 613 | 6.2 | 710 | 7.2 |
1982 | 9,776 | 8,104 | 82.9 | 744 | 7.6 | 928 | 9.5 |
1983 | 9,663 | 8,070 | 83.5 | 816 | 8.4 | 777 | 8.0 |
1984 | 8,748 | 7,490 | 85.6 | 643 | 7.4 | 615 | 7.0 |
1985 | 9,025 | 7,818 | 86.6 | 672 | 7.4 | 535 | 5.9 |
1986 | 9,097 | 7,817 | 85.9 | 779 | 8.6 | 501 | 5.5 |
1987 | 9,254 | 8,030 | 86.8 | 715 | 7.7 | 509 | 5.5 |
1988 | 10,295 | 8,812 | 85.6 | 970 | 9.4 | 513 | 5.0 |
1989 | 10,318 | 8,908 | 86.3 | 891 | 8.6 | 519 | 5.0 |
1990 | 10,483 | 8,884 | 84.7 | 1,053 | 10.0 | 546 | 5.2 |
1991 | 10,705 | 9,052 | 84.6 | 1,186 | 11.1 | 467 | 4.4 |
1992 | 10,936 | 9,066 | 82.9 | 1,538 | 14.1 | 332 | 3.0 |
1993 | 11,146 | 9,156 | 82.1 | 1,555 | 14.0 | 435 | 3.9 |
1994 | 11,411 | 8,863 | 77.7 | 2,109 | 18.5 | 439 | 3.8 |
1995 | 11,598 | 9,514 | 82.0 | 1,730 | 14.9 | 354 | 3.1 |
1996 | 11,592 | 9,851 | 85.0 | 1,522 | 13.1 | 219 | 1.9 |
1997 | 11,597 | 9,720 | 83.8 | 1,665 | 14.4 | 212 | 1.8 |
1998 | 11,718 | 9,822 | 83.8 | 1,706 | 14.6 | 190 | 1.6 |
1999 | 11,833 | 9,396 | 79.4 | 2,289 | 19.3 | 148 | 1.3 |
2000 | 11,899 | 9,818 | 82.5 | 1,965 | 16.5 | 116 | 1.0 |
2001 | 11,967 | 10,121 | 84.6 | 1,731 | 14.5 | 115 | 1.0 |
2002 | 12,126 | 10,434 | 86.0 | 1,567 | 12.9 | 125 | 1.0 |
2003 | 12,261 | 10,343 | 84.4 | 1,709 | 13.9 | 209 | 1.7 |
2004c | 12,240 | 10,426 | 85.2 | 1,609 | 13.1 | 205 | 1.7 |
2004d | 12,240 | 10,524 | 86.0 | 1,474 | 12.0 | 242 | 2.0 |
2005d | 12,396 | 10,783 | 87.0 | 1,270 | 10.2 | 343 | 2.8 |
2006d | 12,320 | 10,814 | 87.8 | 1,177 | 9.6 | 329 | 2.7 |
2007e | 12,629 | 11,020 | 87.3 | 1,290 | 10.2 | 319 | 2.5 |
2008 | 13,166 | 11,574 | 87.9 | 1,436 | 10.9 | 156 | 1.2 |
2009 | 13,285 | 11,709 | 88.1 | 1,478 | 11.1 | 98 | 0.7 |
2010 | 13,711 | 11,703 | 85.4 | 1,880 | 13.7 | 128 | 0.9 |
2011 | 13,785 | 11,694 | 84.8 | 1,933 | 14.0 | 158 | 1.1 |
2012 | 13,952 | 11,914 | 85.4 | 1,984 | 14.2 | 54 | 0.4 |
NA = not available; organizational units providing partial responses are included in complete response column prior to 1981 and reported separately beginning in 1981. |
a 1976 survey also collected 1975 data from master's-granting institutions. |
b Master's-granting institutions were not surveyed in 1978; totals represent estimates based on 1977 and 1979 data. |
c Calculated using response-rate formula used through 2003. See appendix A, "Technical Notes." |
d Calculated using response-rate formula used from 2004 to 2006. Schools closed in 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina were counted as nonrespondents. |
e Calculated using response-rate formula implemented in 2007. See appendix A, "Technical Notes." |
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF-NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. |
Data from survey cycle FY 2012, as of 16 January 2014. |