Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ436087
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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A Comparison of Community College Responders and Nonresponders to the VEDS Student Follow-Up Survey.
Carifio, James; And Others
Research in Higher Education, v32 n4 p469-77 Aug 1991
A survey of respondents and nonrespondents to the Vocational Education Data System's follow-up survey of Massachusetts community college graduates was designed to measure response bias. The survey investigated employment patterns, wages, and degree of job relatedness. Results suggest original data was biased, if at all, toward underestimation, not overestimation. (MSE)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education, Institutional Research, Reliability, Research Problems, Salary Wage Differentials, State Programs, State Surveys, Statistical Analysis, Student Characteristics, Two Year College Students, Vocational Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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