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APPENDIX A: 1991 SURVEY CHANGES
Pages 39-42

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... 7A study conducted on a sample of science and engineering doctorates who were nonrespondents to the 1989 SDR showed bias due to the low response rate in several variables, including location, type of employer, primary work activity, and tenure status. The findings were that the size of the U.S.
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... In American history, doctorates from the earlier cohorts who had revised their field to American history reverted to the "other history" category because American history was not on the list when they earned their degrees. ~ ~ , ~ This caused a significant drop in the number of doctorates reported in American history in 1991, and a related increase in the number reported in "other history." In addition, the number of doctorates in speech/theater showed a large increase in 1991 because older doctorates who had earned degrees in audiology and communications, and who had been counted as nonhumanities doctorates in the i977, 1979, or 1981 reports, reverted to the category "speech." (This is because audiology and communications were not on the list at the time they earned their degrees.)
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... All Fields 66,400 78,600 90,600 100,700 100,300 American History 5,400 8,500 8,800 10,000 6,300 "Other History" 11,400 11,000 12,500 12,700 15,500 Art History 1,500 2,100 2,700 3,100 3,100 Music Speech/Theater Philosophy 3,700 5,200 6,700 8,300 8,700 3,200 3,200 3,800 4,200 5,400 5,400 6,200 7,000 7,500 7,500 English and Amer Lang/Lit 18,500 21,700 23,800 26,000 25,900 Classical Lang/Lit 1,700 1,800 1,900 2,000 2,100 Modern Lang/Lit 11,800 14,300 16,000 17,400 16,400 "Other Humanities" 3,800 4,600 7,500 9,600 9,500 NOTE: These numbers are for the purpose of illustration only and are not valid indicators of trends in the humanities population. For a listing of the fields in "other history" and "other humanities," see footnote 1 in the Introduction to this report.
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