Contents

General Notes

Data Tables

Appendix A. Technical Notes

Appendix B. Codes Used in Degree and Occupation Fields

Appendix C. Survey Questionnaire

Suggested Citation, Acknowledgments

Errata

Jan 29, 2011

Daniel J. Foley,
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Table	Recipients of science, engineering, or health (SEH) doctorates: 2006	Excel	PDF
	by field of doctorate and employment status
1	total
2	by sex
3	by race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
	by field of doctorate
4	selected employment characteristics
5	by sex
6	by race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
7	by disability status

	Employed recipients of SEH doctorates: 2006
	by field of doctorate
8	by race/ethnicity and sex (corrected January 2011)
9	by citizenship status
10	by age
11	by years since doctorate
12	by employment sector
13	by employment sector and sex
14	by employment sector and race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
15	by primary or secondary work activity
16	by employer location
	in universities and 4-year colleges, by field of doctorate
17	by sex and faculty rank
18	by sex, faculty rank, and years since doctorate
19	by race/ethnicity and faculty rank (corrected January 2011)
20	by sex and tenure status
21	by sex, tenure status, and years since doctorate
22	by race/ethnicity and tenure status (corrected January 2011)
23	by primary and secondary work activities
	selected demographic characteristics
24	by broad field of doctorate (corrected January 2011)
25	by citizenship status (corrected January 2011)
	selected demographic and employment-related characteristics
26	by employment sector (corrected January 2011)
27	by race/ethnicity and sex (corrected January 2011)
28	by primary or secondary work activity (corrected January 2011)

	SEH doctorate recipients by occupation
	all recipients
	by employment status
29	total
30	by sex
31	by race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
32	by selected employment characteristics
33	by sex
34	by race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
35	by disability status
36	employed as postdocs
	employed recipients
37	by race/ethnicity and sex (corrected January 2011)
38	non-Hispanic minorities, by race/ethnicity and sex (corrected January 2011)
39	by citizenship status
40	by age
41	by years since doctorate
42	by employment sector
43	by employment sector and sex
44	by employment sector and race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
45	by primary or secondary work activity
46	by employer location
47	selected demographic characteristics (corrected January 2011)
48	by field of doctorate
49	by field of doctorate, in science occupations

	Median annual salaries of full-time employed SEH doctorate recipients: 2006
	by field of doctorate
50	by race/ethnicity and sex (corrected January 2011)
51	by citizenship status
52	by age
53	by years since doctorate
54	by employment sector
55	by employment sector and sex
56	by employment sector and race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
57	by primary or secondary work activity
58	by employer location
	in universities and 4-year colleges, by field of doctorate
59	by sex and faculty rank
60	by sex, faculty rank, and years since doctorate
61	by race/ethnicity and faculty rank (corrected January 2011)
62	by sex and tenure status
63	by sex, tenure status, and years since doctorate
64	by race/ethnicity and tenure status (corrected January 2011)
	by occupation
65	by race/ethnicity and sex (corrected January 2011)
66	by citizenship status
67	by age
68	by years since doctorate
69	by employment sector
70	by disability status
71	by employment sector and sex
72	by employment sector and race/ethnicity (corrected January 2011)
73	by primary or secondary work activities
74	by employer location

	Postdoctoral appointments, by field of SEH doctorate: 2006
75	total
76	postdocs ever held, by years since doctorate
77	primary reason for holding postdoc, by number of postdocs
78	postdoc status, by years since doctorate
79	total on postdocs, by selected demographic characteristics (corrected January 2011)
80	extent to which current postdoc benefitted doctoral scientists and engineers

	Academic employment positions in postsecondary institutions
81	all positions, by field of doctorate

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Characteristics of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the United States: 2006
Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 09-317 | August 2009

Notes:

Errors in the coding of race/ethnicity data collected by the 2006 Survey of Doctorate Recipients have been corrected. Detailed information on this issue is available on our data-correction status page. The following data tables and their corresponding standard error tables have been replaced in this report with corrected versions: 3, 6, 8, 14, 19, 22, 24-28, 31, 34, 37, 38, 44, 47, 50, 56, 61, 64, 65, 72, 79.

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