Earning Potential Graduates in Different Areas of Study

Question

I have a researcher who is analyzing earnings potential for graduates of different fields/faculties in Canada. Required is data on: relative earnings, fields of study when in post-secondary, number of years beyond the completed degree.

We have considered Census & NHS, Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs (TLAC), and National Graduates Survey (NGS) resources, but we haven’t been able to bring together her three criteria yet. (The sticking point is likely to do with the establishing a length of time beyond a completed degree and income from work in a field related to it…! Not an easy thing to isolate..)

Can anyone recommend a resource that would help in this area? Our next stop is policy from arms-length PSE agencies like MPHEC and HEQCO, but I expect to find reports more than anything else from there. Any input you have would be well appreciated.

Answer

I take it the two year interval: 2005 to 2007, not provide enough information from the National Graduate Survey 2005? I think the master file gives a better breakdown of the instructional programs.

PRCIPAGP: Agg. class. of program at grad.

LITERAL QUESTION Aggregated classification of instructional program (CIP) at graduation in 2005 Values Categories 1 Education 2 Visual and performing arts, and communications technologies 3 Humanities 4 Social and behavioural sciences, and law 5 Business, management and public administration 6 Physical and life sciences, and technologies 7 Mathematics, computer and information sciences 8 Architecture, engineering and related technologies 9 Health, parks, recreation and fitness 10 Agric/nat ress/cons; pers/prot/trans serv; oth 99 Not stated

JOBINCP: DV-Annual earnings-job last week

LITERAL QUESTION                Estimated gross annual earnings in Canadian dollars for the job held during the 2007 survey reference week.      Values     Categories 1              Less than 5,000 2              5,000 to 9,999 3              10,000 to 14,999 4              15,000 to 19,999 5              20,000 to 24,999 6              25,000 to 29,999 7              30,000 to 34,999 8              35,000 to 39,999 9              40,000 to 44,999 10            45,000 to 49,999 11            50,000 to 54,999 12            55,000 to 59,999 13            60,000 to 64,999 14            65,000 to 69,999 15            70,000 to 74,999 16            75,000 to 79,999 17            80,000 to 84,999 18            85,000 or more 96            Valid skip 99            Not stated

I don’t know if the longitudinal data from the NLSCY would have this information?

There is also the PUMF that will be released in December if your researcher can wait that long: Product: National Graduate Survey 2013 PUMF (Class of 2009/2010)

Expected date of release: December 2014

There's a few other options that may be helpful. The standard table 3A is free that comes from the National Graduate Survey. It is by the Provincial comparison of estimated gross annual earnings of 2009-2010 graduates working full-time in 2013, by gender* and level of study. This table should hopefully be helpful to the client. We could provide the similar table by the field of study such as education, humanities, health fitness, etc but at a cost to the client.

This file is on the EFT site:
/MAD_DLI/Root/other-products/National Graduates Survey - ngs/2013/ngs2013(graduates2009-2010).xlsx