Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the United States 1995 Profile (1998) / Chapter Skim
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23 4 POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENTS This chapter examines the postdoctoral appointment5 (postdoc) as a component of the career of doctoral scientists and engineers.
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24 • The proportion having held at least one postdoc was inversely related to the number of years since the Ph.D. was granted, ranging from 27 percent for those more than 25 years since degree award to 40 percent for those with 5 years or less since doctorate.
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25 1995 Postdoes • In 1995, 4 percent of science and engineering doctorates were on postdocs, with doctorates in biological sciences having the highest proportion (1 0 percent)
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26 Relevance of Postdoc to 1995 Principal Job Those individuals who had held a postdoc but were not on a postdoc appointment in April 1995 were asked to rate the relevance of their most recent postdoc to the work on their 1995 principal job. Table 29 shows the proportion who said the aspects of their most recent postdoc were "a great deal" or "somewhat" relevant to their job.
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