Dear Strodes,
After conducting some extensive research, I believe I have found what
you require. If this fails to meet your needs, please let me know
before you rate the question, and I will continue answering the
question until you are satisfied.
You asked for data regarding students in Master’s Degree Programs,
including age, income, divorce rates, dependents, major area of work,
marriage status, etc. The only data I did not find that you
specifically mentioned was the divorce rate. At this point I do not
believe that any study has been done concerning divorce rates for
graduate students, however I will continue to look.
The most comprehensive study that I was able to find is the “National
Postsecondary Student Aid Study: Student Financial Aid Estimates for
1999-2000”. This report includes the characteristics of approximately
2.7 million graduate and first-professional students enrolled in
colleges and universities in the United States during 1999–2000. This
includes data on age, race, gender, income, financial aid receipt,
community service, veteran status, and more. It also describes those
graduate and first-professional students who received financial aid.
An executive summary of this report is available here:
http://nces.ed.gov/das/epubs/2002166/index.asp
The complete report is available through this web page:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002166
Or you can simply download the PDF file:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002166.pdf
To help you go through this study, let me point you to some relevant
information.
First, you can read the chapter in the executive summary on “Master’s
Degree Students” (http://nces.ed.gov/das/epubs/2002166/student2.asp).
A few interesting facts from this page: approximately one-half of all
Master’s students were enrolled in either a business or education
program. Sixty percent of MBA students were male, while 76% of
education students were female. Also, 58 % of all graduate and
first-professional students were enrolled in a master’s program.
I believe that the PDF file of the entire study will be quite helpful
to you. I refer you specifically to begin with the tables on page 42
all the way through to page 143.
Should you be so inclined, you can also download the raw data files
from the study:
http://nces.ed.gov/das/htm/das/n2g.html
Perhaps the most useful way to view much of the information from this
study is through the National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC)
Table Library. Using statistics from the previously mentioned study,
it has created many easy-to-read tables. It does repeat many of the
tables found in the PDF document listed above, however it is a much
easier format to access. I have highlighted and organized a number of
tables that I believe will be of use to you:
NEDRC Table Library Home Page:
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/index.asp
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On-Campus Employment Statistics:
Percentage of graduate and first-professional students with
assistantships, by type of assistantship, degree program and type, and
field of study: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas54.asp
For graduate and first-professional students with assistantships,
average amount received, by type of assistantship, degree program and
type, and field of study: 1999–2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas55.asp
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
with teaching and research assistantships according to the amount
received by degree program and type and field of study: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas57.asp
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Student Budget and Aid:
For full-time, full-year graduate and first-professional students with
assistantships, average student budget and average amounts of aid
received, by type of aid, amount of assistantship, and control of
institution: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas60.asp
Average amount of financial aid received by aided graduate and
first-professional students, by type of aid, type of degree,
institution type, and attendance pattern: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas83.asp
Percentage of graduate and first-professional students who received
financial aid, by type of aid, type of degree, institution type, and
attendance pattern: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas82.asp
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Graduate Students by Gender, Age, Average Age:
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
according to gender and age and average age, by selected enrollment
and institution characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas67.asp
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Graduate Students by Race, Citizenship, Country of Origin
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
according to race, and percentage who were Hispanic or Latino, by
selected student, enrollment, and institution characteristics:
1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas69.asp
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
according to citizenship, by selected student, enrollment, and
institution characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas70.asp
Percentage distribution of foreign/international students according to
country of origin, by selected enrollment and institution
characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas79.asp
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Graduate Students by Disabilities:
Percentage of graduate and first-professional students with
disabilities, percentage distribution of students with disabilities
according to main disability, and the percentage of students who
considered themselves to have a disability, by degree program:
1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas81.asp
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Marital Status, Spouse Income:
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
according to marital/dependent status, by selected enrollment and
institution characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas68.asp
Percentage of graduate and first-professional students who were
married, who had a spouse with income, and the spouse’s average
income, by selected enrollment and institution characteristics:
1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas129.asp
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Local Residence:
Percentage distribution of graduate and first professional students,
by their local residence while enrolled: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas146.asp
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Income, Debt, Expenses & Other finances:
Debt burden ratio distribution, average income, and average annual
payment in 1998 of borrowers entering repayment in 1997, by various
characteristics
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas145.asp#r3
Percent of graduate and first-professional students receiving the
maximum subsidized Stafford loans whose student budget exceeded EFC
and total aid, and the average remaining student budget minus EFC and
total aid for those whose student budget exceeding EFC and total aid,
by program and school type, 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas132.asp
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
according to 1998 income and average total income, by selected
enrollment and institution characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas73.asp
Average expenses for graduate and first-professional students, by
attendance status, type of degree, and institution type: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas77.asp
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Employment:
Percentage of graduate and first-professional students who were
employed and considered themselves primarily students working to meet
expenses who reported various benefits of working and percentage
distribution according to the effect on their grades, by selected
enrollment and institution characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas127.asp
Percentage of graduate and first-professional students who were
employed and considered themselves primarily students working to meet
expenses who reported various drawbacks of working, by selected
enrollment and institution characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas128.asp
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Time Between Undergraduate and Graduate Degree:
Percentage distribution of graduate and first-professional students
according to time between receiving bachelor's degree and beginning
graduate program, by selected enrollment and institution
characteristics: 1999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas78.asp
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Please note that while many of the tables refer to all “graduate and
first-professional students”, many of the tables (although not all)
break down the information by type of degree.
I hope the information I have provided is satisfactory, if there is
something I have not answered, or if you need the information in a
different format, please let me know in what way I can improve the
answer.
Again, please let me know if that satisfies your question.
Best regards,
Torq |
Clarification of Answer by
torq-ga
on
29 Jan 2003 16:00 PST
Hi Strodes,
Ok, some interesting progress. Apprently the National Center for
Health Statistics has cut down on the reports that they produce. For
that reason, basic information on "age, race, and educational
attainment level of people experiencing marital events each year has
been lost since 1990". (See page 10,
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p70-80.pdf)
However, the Census Bureau has created a Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP) Study, which attempts to estimate the numbers
that the NCHS study used to count. SIPP lists people with a
bachelor’s degree or more who have experience a marital event. (See
Table 8, Page 13; Table 9, Page 14;
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p70-80.pdf ) An interesting
statistic, the study says that their information from 1996 shows “Men
and women with at least a bachelor’s degree were more likely to marry
in the last year and less likely to separate in the last year than
those who had a high school degree or less”. (Page 15;
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p70-80.pdf )
One study which does divide by level of post-secondary education is
the “Marital Status and Living Arrangements Current Population Study”.
I found a 1998 Study that examines households, the children in them,
and the education levels of the parents (for instance, it says that of
5,340,000 children with a parent who has a graduate degree, 388,000
are living only with their mother.
The table is table #6, page 40, from this document:
http://landview.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p20-514u.pdf
I also found the “2001 Statistical Abstract of the United States”
(http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/stat-ab01.html)
Section 4 is education:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/educ.pdf
Of special interest is the table on page 10, No. 217 – “Educational
Attainment by Selected Characteristic, 2000” This table lists
“marital status” by educational attainment for the year 2000. You
will be interested to see that 13.3% of divorce people have a
bachelor’s degree, while 7.0 % have an advanced degree.
Also of interest from this document:
Page 4, No. 207 – Includes number of degrees conferred with
projections, 1995-2004
Page 10, No. 218 – Earnings by Highest Degree Earned, 1999
Let me know if this information is helpful.
Regards,
Torq
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