National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps) 2018
Tags:
PhD students, funding, mobility, structured doctoral studies, health, employment trajectories, mentoring, young academics, doctoral students, science system, motives for doctoral studies, non-monetary returns, personality, dropout of doctoral studies, scientific careers, doctorate, reconciling work and family life, forms of doctoral studies, labour market success within and outside of academia, monetary returns, young scholarsDetails
Study Series:
Institution(s):
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
Sponsored by:
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project Contributors:
Adrian, Dominik;
Ambrasat, Jens 
;
; Briedis, Kolja;
Friedrich, Christian;
Fuchs, Amrei;
Geils, Matthias;
Kovalova, Iryna;
Lange, Janine;
Lietz, Almuth;
Martens, Bernd;
Redeke, Susanne;
Ruß, Uwe ;
; Sarcletti, Andreas;
Schwabe, Ulrike ;
; Seifert, Moritz;
Siegel, Madeleine;
Teichmann, Carola;
Tesch, Jakob ;
; de Vogel, Susanne ;
; Wegner, Antje ;
; Mühleck, Kai ;
; Scheller, Percy ;
; Berroth, Lara;
Jänsch, Vanessa K.
Survey Design:
Panel
Waves:
4
Survey Data Type:
Quantitative Data
Data available in:
German, English
Data Curation:
Weber, Anne ;
; Schmidtchen, Henrike;
Hoffstätter, Ute ;
; Daniel, Andreas ;
; Birkelbach, Robert
DOI:
Version:
2.0.0 (published at Apr 30, 2024)
Additional Links:
Allowed use cases:
- scientific use
- teaching purposes
Data Package Description
Nacaps, the National Academics Panel Study, is a new longitudinal study of doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project aims at providing nationwide cross-sectional and longitudinal data on doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany regarding their study conditions as well as their career trajectories within and outside of academia. The Nacaps study series apply a panel design to multiple cohorts. Nacaps 2018 is the first cohort in this series of studies. In 2019, all doctoral candidates registered at 53 higher education institutions entitled to award PhDs/doctorates in Germany as off 01.12.2018 were invited to a first survey. Further panel waves follow at yearly intervals. Topics of the survey are e.g. the kind and structure of doctoral studies, motives for conducting doctoral studies, the mentoring situation, working and employment conditions, plans for career paths after the doctorate, international mobility, as well as individual characteristics of respondents. By covering these topics and by considering important indicators on young scholars, the Nacaps data provide important knowledge for national reporting (e.g. the federal report on young academics called “Bundesbericht wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs”), for local steering, as well as for numerous further stakeholders. Moreover, the data offer an opportunity to investigate scientific research questions in the field of academic careers.
Documents related to this Data Package
Data Package
| Title | Description | Document Language | DOI | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release Notes | The release notes contain information about the current version and changes compared to previous versions. | English |
|
nac2018_ReleaseNotes.md |
| National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps) 2018 - Datenpaketübersicht | Data Package Overview | German |
|
nac2018_Overview_de.pdf |
| National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps) 2018 - Data Package Overview | Data Package Overview | English |
|
nac2018_Overview_en.pdf |
| Nacaps 2018 - Daten- und Methodenbericht zur National Academics Panel Study 2018 (1. - 4. Befragungswelle - Promovierende) | The data and methods report includes general information on the data package. | German |
|
nac2018_MethodReport_de.pdf |
| Nacaps 2018 - Data and methods report on the National Academics Panel Study 2018 (1st-4th wave - doctoral candidates) | The data and methods report includes general information on the data package. | English |
|
nac2018_MethodReport_en.pdf |
Instruments
| Type | Description | Document Language | DOI | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 1) | German |
|
nac2018_W1_VariableQuestionnaire_de.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 1) | English |
|
nac2018_W1_VariableQuestionnaire_en.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 2) | German |
|
nac2018_W2_VariableQuestionnaire_de.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 2) | English |
|
nac2018_W2_VariableQuestionnaire_en.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 3) | German |
|
nac2018_W3_VariableQuestionnaire_de.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 3) | English |
|
nac2018_W3_VariableQuestionnaire_en.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 4) | German |
|
nac2018_W4_VariableQuestionnaire_de.pdf |
| Variable Questionnaire | mapping between questions of the survey instrument and variables of the data set (wave 4) | English |
|
nac2018_W4_VariableQuestionnaire_en.pdf |
Data Sets
| Title | Description | Document Language | DOI | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datensatzreport: Nacaps 2018 - Personendatensatz | Codebook/Variable Report/Dataset Report of "Nacaps 2018 - Individual Data" | German |
|
nac2018-ds1_DsReport_de.pdf |
| Dataset Report: Nacaps 2018 - Individual Data | Codebook/Variable Report/Dataset Report of "Nacaps 2018 - Individual Data" | English |
|
nac2018-ds1_DsReport_en.pdf |
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