This Web document points to tables reporting the frequency distributions of responses by college to questions in the Fall 1998 Survey of Baccalaureate Alumni. You can use the index below to link to web tables of College Comparisons by Topic, or directly download an excel file of results by college for all survey items. Survey results for all respondents are provided in "Fall 1998 Survey of Baccalaureate Alumni: All Respondents." For information about the survey and analysis methods see "Fall 1998 Survey of Baccalaureate Alumni and Fall 1998 Employer Survey: Introduction, Methods, and Alumni Demographic Profile." Exact question wording is available on the web.
As noted in the introductory report on the survey's methods, both the actual number of respondents and the response rate effects the margin of error of the results reported. All response rates and margins of error are based on the number of survey respondents compared to the number in the sample. Table 1 below provides information on the number and proportion of alumni responding to the survey from each college, as well as the response rate and margin of error for the college. The margin of error in results reported for individual colleges in the Fall 1998 Survey of Baccalaureate Alumni range from +2.1 percent in Engineering to +6.1 percent in Design. When looking at reported response distributions, it is important to keep the college margin of error in mind.
Table 1: Response Rate and Margin of Error by Academic Unit
|
Baccalaureate Alumni (population) |
Baccalaureate Alumni (sample) |
Survey Respondents |
Response Rate |
Margin of Error |
||||
|
Academic Unit |
Percent |
Frequency |
Percent |
Frequency |
Percent |
Frequency |
||
|
Agriculture and Life Science |
16.2% |
1728 |
16.8% |
1400 |
15.9% |
498 |
35.6% |
2.8% |
|
Design |
3.3% |
350 |
3.7% |
309 |
3.5% |
109 |
35.3% |
6.1% |
|
Education and Psychology |
6.1% |
645 |
6.6% |
552 |
7.0% |
220 |
39.9% |
4.0% |
|
Engineering |
27.7% |
2946 |
26.2% |
2181 |
26.2% |
823 |
37.7% |
2.1% |
|
Forest Resources |
3.3% |
352 |
3.7% |
305 |
4.0% |
127 |
41.6% |
5.1% |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences |
20.5% |
2184 |
20.5% |
1709 |
19.7% |
619 |
36.2% |
2.5% |
|
Physical and Mathematical Sciences |
5.7% |
602 |
6.3% |
522 |
7.2% |
225 |
43.1% |
3.7% |
|
Textiles |
4.6% |
492 |
5.2% |
437 |
6.1% |
192 |
43.9% |
4.0% |
|
Management |
12.7% |
1350 |
11.0% |
920 |
10.4% |
328 |
35.7% |
3.5% |
|
Total |
100.0% |
10649 |
100.0% |
8335 |
100.0% |
3141 |
37.7% |
1.1% |
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