This series of longitudinal dashboards visualizes the educational experiences and alumni outcomes of 1965-2018 University of California, Irvine students. See below for methodology and other details, and see the landing page for other campuses’ longitudinal dashboards. To download each data series, click ‘Download’ and then ‘Crosstab’.
The first dashboard shows the life cycle wages earned by UC Irvine alumni employed in the state of California by gender, ethnicity, college major, and course-taking characteristics:
Life Cycle Wages of UC Irvine Alumni
The second dashboard visualizes the industries in which those California workers were employed by demographics and educational characteristics :
Employment Industry of UC Irvine Alumni
The third dashboard visualizes the courses and majors of UC Irvine students by cohort and demographics:
Courses and Majors Taken by UC Irvine Students
Finally, the fourth dashboard visualizes employment, industry, and geography transition rates for California workers by demographics and educational characteristics:
Employment and Geographic Turnover of UC Irvine Alumni
Citation
Bleemer, Zachary. 2018. “The UC ClioMetric History Project and Formatted Optical Character Recognition“. CSHE Research and Occasional Papers Series 3.18.
Methodology
The UC ClioMetric History Project has partnered with the UC Office of the President’s Institutional Research and Academic Planning group to produce longitudinal interactive dashboards visualizing the demographics, enrollment and major choices, and long-run economic outcomes of each University of California campus’s alumni. Because of the data collection limitations described below, the presented statistics don’t always perfectly match the UC Information Center’s contemporary enrollment and alumni wage dashboards, though any discrepancies are generally small.
Each set of campus dashboards relies on two primary data sources. The first includes all available digitized student transcript records of enrolled UC undergraduates. Transcript availability depends on when each respective campus began maintaining digital records and UC-CHP’s ability to access and digitize some older scanned paper transcripts. See Bleemer (2018) for a detailed description of how historical paper transcripts are digitized into computer-readable records. UC Irvine transcripts are available for 1965-2018 students.
All student transcripts contain students’ campus, first enrollment year, majors, and completed courses. Ethnicity is available for all but the oldest student records. Birth year is not always available, so for the purpose of tracing out wages over alumni’s careers, we assume that first-time undergraduate enrollees are about 18 years old (though of course many are older). Because degree completion is imperfectly available in some cases, ‘alumni’ refers to any student who completed at least 10 courses at the campus.
The second data source includes the linked quarterly 2000-2020 California wages, industry of employment (six-digit NAICS code), and employment city and zip code of all individuals in the transcript database. Wages are summed to annual wages and inflation-adjusted to 2020, and the latest industry and zip code reported in a given year are assigned to that year. Wages are unavailable for students without reported social security numbers and exclude employment that is not covered by California unemployment insurance, including self-employment, federal employment, and out-of-state employment. Alumni with no observed employment in a given year or in any of the five previous years are omitted from all employment analysis.
Courses and majors are consistently categorized across campuses into six disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Professional, and (for courses) Physical Education. Student ethnicity is categorized as either white, African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, other, or not reported. We identify the total number of departments in which each student took courses as the total number of departments listed in the course section of their student transcript.
We define industries by two-digit NAICS codes, combining similar codes and separating out employees of their alma mater campus (identified by NAICS code and zip code). Individuals are defined as persisting with the same employer for x years if they had the same NAICS code and zip code x years prior; the same industry if they had the same NAICS code x years prior; and the same city if they had the same employer city x years prior.