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The Economic Guide To Picking A College Major
Description
The raw data behind the story "The Economic Guide To Picking A College Major" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economic-guide-to-picking-a-college-major/.
Usage
college_grad_students
Format
A data frame with 173 rows representing majors (graduate vs nongraduate students) and 22 variables:
- major_code
Major code, FO1DP in ACS PUMS
- major
Major description
- major_category
Category of major from Carnevale et al
- grad_total
Total number of people with major
- grad_sample_size
Sample size (unweighted) of full-time, year-round ONLY (used for earnings)
- grad_employed
Number employed (ESR == 1 or 2)
- grad_employed_fulltime_yearround
Employed at least 50 weeks (WKW == 1) and at least 35 hours (WKHP >= 35)
- grad_unemployed
Number unemployed (ESR == 3)
- grad_unemployment_rate
Unemployed / (Unemployed + Employed)
- grad_p25th
25th percentile of earnings
- grad_median
Median earnings of full-time, year-round workers
- grad_p75th
75th percentile of earnings
- nongrad_total
Total number of people with major
- nongrad_employed
Number employed (ESR == 1 or 2)
- nongrad_employed_fulltime_yearround
Employed at least 50 weeks (WKW == 1) and at least 35 hours (WKHP >= 35)
- nongrad_unemployed
Number unemployed (ESR == 3)
- nongrad_unemployment_rate
Unemployed / (Unemployed + Employed)
- nongrad_p25th
25th percentile of earnings
- nongrad_median
Median earnings of full-time, year-round workers
- nongrad_p75th
75th percentile of earnings
- grad_share
grad_total / (grad_total + nongrad_total)
- grad_premium
(grad_median-nongrad_median)/nongrad_median
Source
See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/college-majors/readme.md.
See Also
college_all_ages, college_recent_grads