Survey of Doctorate Recipients
Survey Year 2015

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Table	Doctoral scientists and engineers: 2015
	by field of doctorate
1-1	by employment status
1-2	residing outside of the United States
1-3	by fine field of doctorate
2	by employment status and sex (broad field)
3	by employment status, ethnicity, and race (broad field)
	selected employment characteristics
4-1	unemployed rate
4-2	involuntarily out-of-field rate
4-3	labor force participation rate
4-4	residing outside of the United States
4-5	by fine field of doctorate
5	by resident location and sex (fine field)
6	by ethnicity and race
7	by disability status
	Employed doctoral scientists and engineers: 2015
	by field of doctorate
8	by ethnicity, race, and sex
9	by citizenship status
10	by age
11-1	by years since doctorate
11-2	residing outside of the United States
12-1	by sector of employment
12-2	residing outside of the United States
12-3	by fine field of doctorate
13	by sector of employment and sex (broad field)
14	by sector of employment, ethnicity, and race (broad field)
15-1	by primary or secondary work activity
15-2	by primary work activity
15-3	residing outside of the United States
15-4	by fine field of doctorate
16	by employer location (broad field)
	in 4-year educational institutions, by broad field of doctorate
17	by sex and faculty rank
18	by sex, faculty rank, and years since doctorate
19	by ethnicity, race, and faculty rank
20	by sex and tenure status
21	by sex, tenure status, and years since doctorate
22	by ethnicity, race, and tenure status
23	by primary and secondary work activity
	by selected demographic characteristics
24	by broad field of doctorate
25	by citizenship status
	by sector of employment
26-1	by selected demographic and employment-related characteristics and primary or secondary work activity
26-2	by primary work activity
	by ethnicity, race, and sex
27-1	by selected demographic and employment-related characteristics and primary or secondary work activity
27-2	by primary work activity
	by selected demographic and employment-related characteristics
28-1	by primary or secondary work activity
28-2	by primary work activity

	Occupations of doctoral scientists and engineers: 2015
	by employment status
29	by occupation
30	by broad occupation and sex
31	by broad occupation, ethnicity, and race
	selected employment characteristics, by occupation
32-1	unemployment rate
32-2	involuntarily out-of-field rate
32-3	labor force participation rate
	by occupation
33	by sex
34	by ethnicity and race
35	by disability status
36	employed as postdoctoral appointees
37	by ethnicity, race, and sex
38	minority employed doctoral scientists and engineers, by ethnicity, race, and sex
39	by citizenship status
40	by age
41	by years since doctorate
42	by sector of employment
43	by sector of employment and sex (broad occupation)
44	by sector of employment, ethnicity, and race (broad occupation)
45-1	by primary or secondary work activity
45-2	by primary work activity
46	by employer location (broad occupation)
47	by selected demographic characteristics (broad occupation)
48	by field of doctorate (broad occupation)
49	in science occupations, by field of doctorate (broad occupation)

	Median annual salaries of full-time employed doctoral scientists and engineers: 2015
	by field of doctorate
50	by ethnicity, race, and sex
51	by citizenship status
52	by age
53	by years since doctorate
54	by sector of employment
55	by sector of employment and sex (broad field)
56	by sector of employment, ethnicity, and race (broad field)
57-1	by primary or secondary work activity
57-2	by primary work activity
58	by employer location (broad field)
	in 4-year educational institutions, by broad field of doctorate
59	by sex and faculty rank
60	by sex, faculty rank, and years since doctorate
61	by ethnicity, race, and faculty rank
62	by sex and tenure status
63	by sex, tenure status, and years since doctorate
64	by ethnicity, race, and tenure status
	by occupation
65	by ethnicity, race, and sex
66	by citizenship status
67	by age
68	by years since doctorate
69	by sector of employment
70	by disability status
71	by sector of employment and sex (broad occupation)
72	by sector of employment, ethnicity, and race (broad occupation)
73-1	by primary or secondary work activity
73-2	by primary work activity
74	by employer location (broad occupation)

	Postdoctoral appointments of doctoral scientists and engineers: 2015
75	employed as postdoctoral appointees, by field of doctorate
76	postdoctoral appointment status, by years since doctorate and broad field of doctorate
77	employed as postdoctoral appointees, by selected demographic characteristics and broad field of doctorate

March 2018

Data from survey cycle 2015
(finalized 18 February 2017)

National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Doctorate Recipients, 2015. http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/doctoratework/2015/.

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Table	Table Name
A-1	Comparison of science, engineering, and health doctoral fields of study in the SDR and the SED
A-2	Crosswalk of occupations used in the SDR data tables

March 2018

Data from survey cycle 2015
(finalized 18 February 2017)

National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Survey of Doctorate Recipients Survey Year 2015

Survey of Doctorate Recipients
Survey Year 2015