Summary information

Study title

Careers of Professional Engineers, 1978

Creator

Berthoud, R. G., Policy Studies Institute

Study number / PID

1495 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1495-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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The aim of this survey was to examine the education, training, and careers of a sample of professional engineers.
Main Topics:

Variables
Data was collected on education, original and recurrent training, full career history (type of work and salaries), current post, attitudes towards current and possible alternative jobs.

Labour and employment

Data collection period

01/09/1978 - 01/10/1978

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Groups

National

Engineers

Universe

1. All members of professional engineering institutions associated with the Council of Engineering Institutions in the following types of grades: graes whose members will become Chartered Engineers after more training experience; Technician Engineer grades. 2. All members of 14 other institutions in grades for which the normal qualification is HNC/D or above. Members whose name and address were both foreign were excluded

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1981

Terms of data access

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Smith, D. and Berthoud, R. (1980) The education, training and careers of professional engineers , London: HMSO.