Table 27. Postdoctoral appointees in science, engineering, and health in all institutions, by field: 1979–2012 |
Science and engineering | Health | ||||||
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Year | All science, engineering, and health |
Total | Science | Engineering | Total | Clinical medicine | Other healtha |
1979 | 18,101 | 13,586 | 12,519 | 1,067 | 4,515 | 4,035 | 480 |
1980 | 18,399 | 14,023 | 13,042 | 981 | 4,376 | 3,899 | 477 |
1981 | 19,634 | 14,771 | 13,731 | 1,040 | 4,863 | 4,328 | 535 |
1982 | 19,363 | 14,678 | 13,698 | 980 | 4,685 | 4,058 | 627 |
1983 | 20,712 | 15,670 | 14,562 | 1,108 | 5,042 | 4,450 | 592 |
1984 | 21,535 | 16,182 | 14,979 | 1,203 | 5,353 | 4,713 | 640 |
1985 | 22,387 | 16,932 | 15,576 | 1,356 | 5,455 | 4,746 | 709 |
1986 | 23,721 | 17,917 | 16,512 | 1,405 | 5,804 | 5,094 | 710 |
1987 | 24,881 | 18,815 | 17,369 | 1,446 | 6,066 | 5,302 | 764 |
1988 | 26,123 | 19,714 | 18,024 | 1,690 | 6,409 | 5,552 | 857 |
1989 | 27,932 | 20,906 | 18,978 | 1,928 | 7,026 | 6,166 | 860 |
1990 | 29,565 | 21,803 | 19,853 | 1,950 | 7,762 | 6,945 | 817 |
1991 | 30,865 | 22,857 | 20,595 | 2,262 | 8,008 | 7,168 | 840 |
1992 | 32,747 | 23,883 | 21,514 | 2,369 | 8,864 | 7,977 | 887 |
1993 | 34,322 | 24,665 | 22,219 | 2,446 | 9,657 | 8,625 | 1,032 |
1994 | 36,377 | 25,787 | 23,181 | 2,606 | 10,590 | 9,411 | 1,179 |
1995 | 35,926 | 26,160 | 23,512 | 2,648 | 9,766 | 8,594 | 1,172 |
1996 | 37,107 | 26,569 | 23,892 | 2,677 | 10,538 | 9,362 | 1,176 |
1997 | 38,481 | 27,264 | 24,293 | 2,971 | 11,217 | 9,990 | 1,227 |
1998 | 40,086 | 27,876 | 25,023 | 2,853 | 12,210 | 10,957 | 1,253 |
1999 | 40,800 | 28,980 | 25,784 | 3,196 | 11,820 | 10,623 | 1,197 |
2000 | 43,115 | 30,224 | 26,911 | 3,313 | 12,891 | 11,555 | 1,336 |
2001 | 43,311 | 30,196 | 27,044 | 3,152 | 13,115 | 11,663 | 1,452 |
2002 | 45,034 | 31,937 | 28,371 | 3,566 | 13,097 | 11,582 | 1,515 |
2003 | 46,728 | 33,666 | 29,856 | 3,810 | 13,062 | 11,445 | 1,617 |
2004 | 47,240 | 34,065 | 30,116 | 3,949 | 13,175 | 11,477 | 1,698 |
2005 | 48,555 | 34,456 | 30,290 | 4,166 | 14,099 | 12,323 | 1,776 |
2006 | 49,343 | 34,887 | 30,245 | 4,642 | 14,456 | 12,584 | 1,872 |
2007oldb | 50,712 | 35,894 | 30,986 | 4,908 | 14,818 | 12,805 | 2,013 |
2007newb | 50,840 | 36,223 | 31,281 | 4,942 | 14,617 | 12,472 | 2,145 |
2008 | 54,164 | 38,203 | 32,741 | 5,462 | 15,961 | 13,837 | 2,124 |
2009 | 57,805 | 40,804 | 34,388 | 6,416 | 17,001 | 14,601 | 2,400 |
2010c,d | 63,439 | 44,320 | 37,351 | 6,969 | 19,119 | 16,515 | 2,604 |
2011d | 62,639 | 44,121 | 37,335 | 6,786 | 18,518 | 16,165 | 2,353 |
2012 | 62,851 | 43,841 | 36,738 | 7,103 | 19,010 | 16,361 | 2,649 |
a Other health includes postdoctoral appointees in anesthesiology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology and cancer research, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pediatrics, preventive medicine and community health, psychiatry, pulmonary disease, radiology, surgery, and clinical medicine, not elsewhere classified. |
b In 2007, eligible fields were reclassified, newly eligible fields were added, and the survey was redesigned to improve coverage and coding of eligible units. “2007new” presents data as collected in 2007; “2007old” shows data as they would have been collected in prior years. See appendix A in http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10307/ for more detail. |
c In 2010, the postdoc section of the survey was expanded, and significant effort was made to ensure that appropriate personnel were providing postdoc data (see appendix A for more information). Thus, it is unclear how much of the increases in 2010 and later years over 2009 and prior years are from growth in postdoctoral appointments and how much are from improved data collection. More information on the changes to the postdoc data collection is available at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf13334/. |
d Postdoc data from 2010 and 2011 were reimputed following the 2012 data collection; these data supersede those contained in previous reports. |
NOTES: “Field” refers to the field of the unit that reports postdocs to the GSS. |
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 Fall 2012, as of December 2013. |