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—Physics: 14 universities.
—Education: 15 universities, of which 14 participated.
—Chemistry: 15 universities, of which 14 participated.
The data relating to the sample participating in the study are
presented below.
Graduates Employers Academics
N % N % N %
Business 921 17,8 153 16,2 153 15,3
Geology 656 12,7 138 14,6 145 14,5
History 800 15,4 149 15,8 221 22,1
Mathematics 662 12,8 122 12,9 122 12,2
Physics 635 12,3 85 9,0 121 12,1
Education Sciences 897 17,3 201 21,3 134 13,4
Chemistry 612 11,8 96 10,2 102 10,2
Total 5183 100,0 944 100,0 998 100,0
Although the intention of the consultation was to initiate a joint
dialogue with social groups and the debates followed at institutional and
subject area level could be considered the best results, the valuable work
of 101 universities and the volume of data collected (5,183
questionnaires from graduates, 944 from employers and 998 from
academics) deserve an attempt at some treatment for further reflection.
5.6. Methodology
The sample design was clustered, as respondents are clustered within
Universities. Therefore assumptions of simple random sampling may not
be valid as respondents are not strictly independent from each other. At
the same time, Universities may show some cluster effect at country level.
Clustered design is widely used in research 17 and does not represent
by itself a source of bias. Cluster sampling affects the survey sampling
17 Bryk, A.S. And Raudenbusch, S.W. (1992).
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Goldstein, H. (1995).
Goldstein, H. And Spiegelhalter, D. (1996).
Goldstein, H., Rasbash, J., Yang, M., Woodhouse, G., Pan, H., Nuttall, D., and
Thomas, S. (1993).
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