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The Path to the Ph.D. Measuring Graduate Attrition in the Sciences and Humanities (1996) / Chapter Skim
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CONCLUSION
Pages 33-34

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... Data collection is carried out by educational institutions, professional societies, state and federal agencies, and private foundations. Some data are collected in cooperation with federal laws that require statistics to monitor compliance of the higher education community with relevant civil rights statutes, but most statistics about graduate education are generated to meet short-term institutional needs for specific information and definitions vary to meet each individual context and infonnation needs.
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... . The project has many of He features Hat would be required of a national, systematic effort to study graduate student attntion: it is national in scope, it includes a range of science and humanities fields, it collects from institutions data on individual graduate students, and it maintains a longitudinal data base of changes in students' degree status over tune.
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