Description

BAAYR5 is the year the respondent was awarded his/her first bachelor's degree, grouped into 5-year intervals. In some samples, the month of the receipt of the first bachelor's degree is available in BAMN. The year of achieving a bachelor's degree without intervals is available in some samples in the variable BAACYR.

Comparability

BAAYR5 had originally been available only in 2001 public use samples. A similar variable, BA03Y5, was available from 1993 to 2013, but there were comparability issues in the year intervals over time. Source variables for samples of BA03Y5 prior to 2003 were instead assigned to BAAYR5 so that all responses within the same variable corresponded to the same year category.

Prior to 2003, the year ranges differed from the 2003-onward intervals by 1 year. For example, in the SESTAT 2003 NSCG sample, a code of 1970 corresponds to 1971 to 1975, whereas in the SESTAT 1993 NSCG sample, 1970 corresponds to 1970 to 1974.

Universe

Availability