HHS | |||||||||||||
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Mechanism of support and sex | All sources |
DOD | DOE | NIH | Other | NASA | NSF | USDA | Other federal |
Domestic | Foreign | Institutional | Self- support |
Imputation rate (%) All full-time students |
1.2 | 14.0 | 2.3 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 12.7 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 7.1 | 10.8 | 5.4 | 7.1 | 10.1 |
Fellowship | 6.2 | 10.2 | 2.4 | 5.9 | 9.8 | 8.0 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 4.7 | 14.0 | 5.3 | 5.7 | na |
Research assistantship | 7.9 | 12.1 | 2.5 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 14.2 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 10.3 | 2.1 | 8.3 | na |
Teaching assistantship | 7.5 | na | 3.3 | na | 4.3 | 4.3 | 15.8 | 15.0 | 8.0 | 13.7 | 4.2 | 7.4 | na |
Traineeship | 5.9 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 35.3 | 5.4 | 16.1 | 55.3 | 4.4 | na |
Other support | 9.9 | 26.6 | 10.0 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 11.8 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 10.7 | 10.3 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 10.1 |
Male |
1.6 | 14.6 | 2.4 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 14.5 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 7.0 | 11.1 | 5.1 | 7.1 | 9.9 |
Female | 1.5 | 12.5 | 2.5 | 8.8 | 9.9 | 8.1 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 7.5 | 10.4 | 6.0 | 7.4 | 10.2 |
Number imputed All full-time students |
5,838 | 1,163 | 112 | 1,766 | 131 | 254 | 1,276 | 124 | 842 | 2,218 | 289 | 13,499 | 17,805 |
Fellowship | 2,687 | 53 | 5 | 107 | 15 | 26 | 252 | 2 | 71 | 430 | 78 | 1,654 | na |
Research assistantship | 9,160 | 752 | 112 | 1,302 | 83 | 224 | 977 | 125 | 575 | 1,427 | 35 | 3,756 | na |
Teaching assistantship | 6,673 | na | 2 | na | 3 | 1 | 51 | 9 | 31 | 139 | 4 | 6,446 | na |
Traineeship | 619 | 5 | 0 | 275 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 6 | 24 | 62 | 26 | 165 | na |
Other support | 20,872 | 356 | 4 | 33 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 183 | 227 | 158 | 2,060 | 17,805 |
Male |
3,996 | 946 | 91 | 882 | 38 | 207 | 925 | 68 | 494 | 1,380 | 180 | 7,351 | 8,833 |
Female | 3,273 | 228 | 27 | 1,011 | 93 | 47 | 398 | 57 | 360 | 843 | 112 | 6,314 | 8,980 |
na = not applicable; not asked because this support mechanism does not apply. |
DOD = Department of Defense; DOE = Department of Energy; HHS = Department of Health and Human Services; NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NIH = National Institutes of Health; NSF = National Science Foundation; USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF-NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2013. |
Data from survey cycle Fall 2013, as of 8 August 2014. |