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The article focuses on an employment survey, conducted on computer science (CS) doctoral graduates, as of November 1, 1998. It is an attempt to answer the question of shortage or surplus of CS graduates using data collected from this survey and comparable surveys of other recent Ph.D. in science and engineering fields, as well as national data on the entire science and engineering workforce in the U.S. The survey was refined and repeated in the fall of 1997 for graduates from the academic year 1996-1997. Consistent with last year's survey, 2.4% of recent doctorates reported they were not working and seeking employment during the week of October 13, 1997. Nearly all of the employed respondents had full-time primary employment, as opposed to part-time positions. However, this year only 17% reported that their primary job was temporary, compared to last year's 28%. Salary and unemployment data for science and engineering doctorates indicate there is a greater demand for computer scientists than for almost all other fields

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For a number of years, the Computer Research Association's Taulbee Survey has done an excellent job surveying department chairs to determine faculty characteristics and the employment destinations of doctorates where known. What has been missing to date is data on recent graduates for whom faculty had no knowledge. Moreover, more detailed information was needed from the recent doctoral graduates themselves. These and other questions were addressed in a recent pilot study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a grant to the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology. Of the 123 respondents, who answered the question on where they were employed, 103 were working in the U.S., 11 in Canada, and 9 outside the U.S./Canada. Some 96% of recent doctorates reported that they were working during the week of October 14, 1996. Of the 4% who were not working, two were not seeking employment, so three respondents were actively looking for employment. The finding of low unemployment among doctorates is consistent with national data on the sciences and the engineering (S&E) that finds of all doctorates in S&E, about 1.5%, were unemployed in 1995.