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Turkish Academic Career (TAC) Survey (2007)
TAC Survey is a micro-data collected during 2006-2007 academic year that aims to shed light on a number of issues related to the academia and academic career in Turkey. These issues can broadly be clustered around two dimensions: First one is about the factors affecting academic career choices such as parental (as well as socio-economic) background, (non-)academic employment history, education history and marital history. Second dimension concentrates on attitudes towards academic career and gender roles in order to explore preferences of the highly educated regarding the labour market participation and the family.
Academic structure in Turkey is particularly interesting due to its strikingly high female academics ratio (i.e. the highest rate of female full professors in the world) as opposed to its low female labour force participation in general. Furthermore it exhibits very low levels of horizontal seggregation across the scientific fields.
The micro-data is collected through a comprehensive web-survey designed by Hande Inanc (PhD Candidate) and myself. It covers a representative sample of academics currently affiliated in all Turkish research institutes and universities. The data contains 6252 individuals from all academic ranks and 334 variables (19.5% response rate). The questionnaire was sent to the whole population (no sampling strategy was followed) and the representation is granted by a number of weights to correct non-response and possible coverage bias. The survey is the first of its kind in Turkey and it is the most comprehensive internationally.
Further documentation and information about the data (i.e. methodology, reliability and weighting) as well as first results of the project will SOON be announced here. For the moment, in order to see the scope of the issues that our data cover, you can consult the variable list and the codebook below.
Documentation:
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This research was conducted during our doctoral studies as a side project without any institutional and financial support. We are very grateful to Fatos Inanc, Mustafa Ozcan, Muammer Zerenler, Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, Ilkay Atay, Selin Semerci, Merih Ortabas and Caglar Gunel for their contributions in various stages of the project.
We would also like to thank all the academics who patiently filled our questionnaire. We are particularly grateful many of those who bothered to send us their generous feedback and moral support which became our main source of motivation during course of the project.
Berkay Özcan and Hande Inanç
