The U.S. Census Bureau has announced new data-sharing agreements with Brigham Young University-Idaho and the University of North Carolina System as part of its Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. This initiative provides information on earnings and employment outcomes for graduates by degree level, major, institution, and state.
These new partnerships add data from 17 more post-secondary institutions to the PSEO dataset. With this update, the PSEO now covers 952 institutions and includes about 35% of all college graduates in the United States.
The PSEO is made possible through collaborations between universities, university systems, state education departments, state labor market information offices, and the U.S. Census Bureau. The information is created by linking graduate transcript records to Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. Users can access this data through the PSEO Explorer tool, raw files, or the Census API.
According to the Census Bureau: “The PSEO provides earnings and employment outcomes for college and university graduates by degree level, degree major, post-secondary institution, and state of institution, and is used by parents, students, institutions, and workforce agencies to learn about the labor force outcomes of graduates.”
For further details on accessing these datasets or learning more about the program’s scope and methodology, visit PSEO data.
