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Graduate Student Survey
Fall 2000 Continuing Graduate Student
Table of Responses
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  • The tables in this section do not include the question wording. The question numbers correspond to the questions in the graphical presentation
  • The following table summarizes the responses to questions 1-23 of the survey.
Question #   Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Not applicable (Not on the job market) Total
1 Count 55 87 153 465 557 0 1317
Row % 4.2% 6.6% 11.6% 35.3% 42.3% 0.0% 100.0%
2 Count 31 136 199 609 335 0 1310
Row % 2.4% 10.4% 15.2% 46.5% 25.6% 0.0% 100.0%
3 Count 55 113 203 571 365 0 1307
Row % 4.2% 8.7% 15.5% 43.7% 27.9% 0.0% 100.0%
4 Count 58 106 165 517 466 0 1312
Row % 4.4% 8.1% 12.6% 39.4% 35.5% 0.0% 100.0%
5 Count 26 85 184 564 452 0 1311
Row % 2.0% 6.5% 14.0% 43.0% 34.5% 0.0% 100.0%
6 Count 88 196 288 481 257 0 1310
Row % 6.7% 15.0% 22.0% 36.7% 19.6% 0.0% 100.0%
7 Count 90 232 432 382 171 0 1307
Row % 6.9% 17.8% 33.1% 29.2% 13.1% 0.0% 100.0%
8 Count 56 130 358 489 270 0 1303
Row % 4.3% 10.0% 27.5% 37.5% 20.7% 0.0% 100.0%
9 Count 79 190 283 498 260 0 1310
Row % 6.0% 14.5% 21.6% 38.0% 19.9% 0.0% 100.0%
10 Count 52 114 186 513 438 0 1303
Row % 4.0% 8.8% 14.3% 39.4% 33.6% 0.0% 100.0%
11 Count 50 92 156 216 148 646 1308
Row % 3.8% 7.0% 11.9% 16.5% 11.4% 49.6% 100.2%
12 Count 38 101 212 432 230 301 1314
Row % 2.9% 7.7% 16.1% 32.9% 17.5% 23.1% 100.2%
13 Count 143 212 232 392 318 0 1297
Row % 11.0% 16.4% 17.9% 30.2% 24.5% 0.0% 100.0%
14 Count 18 72 169 595 457 0 1311
Row % 1.4% 5.5% 12.9% 45.4% 34.9% 0.0% 100.0%
15 Count 39 88 219 602 363 0 1311
Row % 3.0% 6.7% 16.7% 45.9% 27.7% 0.0% 100.0%
16 Count 318 508 264 107 39 0 1236
Row % 25.7% 41.1% 21.4% 8.7% 3.2% 0.0% 100.0%
17 Count 40 131 138 618 383 0 1310
Row % 3.1% 10.0% 10.5% 47.2% 29.2% 0.0% 100.0%
18 Count 12 49 138 645 463 0 1307
Row % 0.9% 3.8% 10.6% 49.4% 35.4% 0.0% 100.0%
19 Count 41 74 205 410 463 0 1193
Row % 3.4% 6.2% 17.2% 34.4% 38.8% 0.0% 100.0%
20 Count 49 110 289 313 308 0 1069
Row % 4.6% 10.3% 27.0% 29.3% 28.8% 0.0% 100.0%
21 Count 226 320 318 183 94 0 1141
Row % 19.8% 28.1% 27.9% 16.0% 8.2% 0.0% 100.0%
22 Count 46 133 215 591 324 0 1309
Row % 3.5% 10.2% 16.4% 45.2% 24.8% 0.00% 100.0%
23 Count 97 178 223 538 260 0 1296
Row % 7.5% 13.7% 17.2% 41.5% 20.1% 0.00% 100.0%
  • The following table summarizes the responses to questions 24-27 regarding teaching and research assistantships.
Question #   No Yes Total
24 Count 896 419 1315
Row % 68.14% 31.86% 100.00%
25 Count 876 439 1315
Row % 66.62% 33.38% 100.00%
26 Count 1093 221 1314
Row % 83.18% 16.82% 100.00%
27 Count 1173 138 1311
Row % 89.47% 10.53% 100.00%
  • Questions 28-30 were answered only by those with a research or teaching assistantship. Those with neither type of assistantship were directed to skip these questions.
Question #   Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Total
28 Count 121 279 106 88 63 657
Row % 18.42% 42.47% 16.13% 13.39% 9.59% 100.00%
29 Count 11 21 44 285 295 656
Row % 1.68% 3.20% 6.71% 43.45% 44.97% 100.00%
30 Count 34 78 129 280 133 654
Row % 5.20% 11.93% 19.72% 42.81% 20.34% 100.00%
  • For questions 31-34 the total responses are much lower than for questions 35-47. Students were directed to answer questions 31-34 only if they had a teaching assistantship. Otherwise, they left it blank. All students were asked to response to questions 35-47.
Question #   Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Not applicable (Not on the job market) Total
31 Count 41 119 124 70 26 82 462
Row % 8.9% 25.8% 26.8% 15.2% 5.6% 17.7% 100.0%
32 Count 8 16 226 20 8 184 462
Row % 1.7% 3.5% 48.9% 4.3% 1.7% 39.8% 100.0%
33 Count 9 9 165 8 5 265 461
Row % 2.0% 2.0% 35.8% 1.7% 1.1% 57.5% 100.0%
34 Count 36 56 210 39 24 96 461
Row % 7.8% 12.1% 45.6% 8.5% 5.2% 20.8% 100.0%
35 Count 13 24 637 86 128 429 1317
Row % 1.0% 1.8% 48.4% 6.5% 9.7% 32.6% 100.0%
36 Count 9 11 659 77 81 481 1318
Row % 0.7% 0.8% 50.0% 5.8% 6.1% 36.5% 100.0%
37 Count 26 53 499 133 48 559 1318
Row % 2.0% 4.0% 37.9% 10.1% 3.6% 42.4% 100.0%
38 Count 17 33 519 89 28 632 1318
Row % 1.3% 2.5% 39.4% 6.8% 2.1% 48.0% 100.0%
39 Count 8 14 497 140 104 555 1318
Row % 0.6% 1.1% 37.7% 10.6% 7.9% 42.1% 100.0%
40 Count 12 36 428 283 85 474 1318
Row % 0.9% 2.7% 32.5% 21.5% 6.4% 36.0% 100.0%
41 Count 19 49 408 233 50 559 1318
Row % 1.4% 3.7% 31.0% 17.7% 3.8% 42.4% 100.0%
42 Count 12 39 436 213 60 558 1318
Row % 0.9% 3.0% 33.1% 16.2% 4.6% 42.3% 100.0%
43 Count 14 16 560 44 31 653 1318
Row % 1.1% 1.2% 42.5% 3.3% 2.4% 49.5% 100.0%
44 Count 10 32 418 343 129 386 1318
Row % 0.8% 2.4% 31.7% 26.0% 9.8% 29.3% 100.0%
45 Count 11 17 524 64 29 673 1318
Row % 0.8% 1.3% 39.8% 4.9% 2.2% 51.1% 100.0%
46 Count 14 22 544 50 28 660 1318
Row % 1.1% 1.7% 41.3% 3.8% 2.1% 50.1% 100.0%
47 Count 28 44 506 183 100 458 1319
Row % 2.1% 3.3% 38.4% 13.9% 7.6% 34.7% 100.0%
  • Questions 48-51 summarizes the responses to the conflict resolution program questions.
Question #   Does not apply Applies Total
48 Count 734 503 1237
Row % 59.3% 40.7% 100.0%
49 Count 739 491 1230
Row % 60.1% 39.9% 100.0%
50 Count 1028 190 1218
Row % 84.4% 15.6% 100.0%
51 Count 887 328 1215
Row % 73.0% 27.0% 100.0%
  • Questions 52 and 53 show the responses to the first two discrimination questions.
Question #   No Yes Total
52 Count 777 485 1262
Row % 61.6% 38.4% 100.0%
53 Count 965 320 1285
Row % 75.1% 24.9% 100.0%
  • The percentages for question 54 do not match exactly with those to question 53 because some respondents answered yes to question 53 and then did not indicate the type of discrimination in question 54.
Question #   Other Religion Language Race/
Ethnicity		 Gender NA (Answered no to 53 - did not experience discrimination) Total
54 Count 54 16 44 105 80 965 1264
Row % 4.3% 1.3% 3.5% 8.3% 6.3% 76.3% 100.0%
  • The final table summarizes responses to questions about students' choice of MSU for graduate study.
Question #   Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Total
55 Count 39 65 179 467 555 1305
Row % 3.0% 5.0% 13.7% 35.8% 42.5% 100.0%
56 Count 86 148 253 446 369 1302
Row % 6.6% 11.4% 19.4% 34.3% 28.3% 100.0%
57 Count 337 190 142 194 366 1229
Row % 27.4% 15.5% 11.6% 15.8% 29.8% 100.0%

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