Summary information

Study title

Employment and skills of graduates in Sociology (2013-2014)

Creator

Associazione Italiana di Sociologia

Study number / PID

SN196 (UniData)

10.20366/unimib/unidata/SN196-1.0 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

The data are based on the "Professional condition of graduates in Sociology" survey carried out in 2013 with the aim of analyzing the employment condition of graduates of three-year courses in Sociology. The survey was promoted by the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milan-Bicocca, in collaboration with AIS - Italian Association of Sociology and all the universities where a degree course in Sociology was active in 2013. The research collected data on all graduates in three-year degree courses in Sociology (class number 36) in the academic years between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010. The choice of this time period has ensured the observation of graduates at least two and a half years after graduation, in order to avoid that the condition of non-employment, especially for the last levers, was connected with the limited time available to seek work. The survey has adopted a mixed CAWI - CATI strategy. The questionnaire was proposed only to graduates who had an e-mail address, while graduates without an electronic address were contacted by telephone, in order to acquire the e-mail address to which send the link to fill in. The dataset distributed includes data relating to 3,779 graduates in Sociology. The areas covered are as follows: - General information: gender, year of birth, type of diploma, year of enrolment, etc. - Training path: structure of the university path and motivational profile with respect to the training choices made; - Transition from the university to the labour market: working conditions (the current and also such one characterizing the transition from obtaining the three-year degree to the current job), search for a job and any reasons for not searching; - Work situation: job, type of work, type of contract, work sector, income and channels used to find such employment. Possible assessment of the actual improvement of the work situation from the achievement of the degree for those who were already doing a job...
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Methodology

Data collection period

26/07/2013 - 28/01/2014

Country

Italy

Time dimension

cross-section

Analysis unit

individual

Universe

Italian graduates in Sociology (class number 36) in the academic years from 2004-2005 to 2009-2010, and enrolled since 2001-2002

Sampling procedure

3,779 individuals. Total universe

Kind of data

individual data

Data collection mode

web-based self-administered questionnaire (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

UniData - Bicocca Data Archive

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

Data are released for research and teaching purposes only, and the redistribution to the third party, even in partial form, of data is not allowed.