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Potential errors in Graduates dataset

Open acbart opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

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When looking at the numbers, they seem very high. For example, looking at psychology, your data file lists 1574224 recent bachelor degrees for 2010. However, the nsf website only lists 180,000:

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/recentgrads/2010/html/RCG2010_DST1_1.html

Moreover, it seems that only about 2mil bachelor degrees are awarded in the US per year, which makes the 1.5 mil recent psych bachelor degrees unlikely.

Is it possible that there is an error in the data? Decimal points read as thousand separator perhaps?

acbart avatar May 13 '19 06:05 acbart