Higher Education Graduates Survey 2012

The sample frame for this survey is 1,924 individuals aged between 25 and 40 years and holding a bachelor degree in one of the disciplines of accounting, management or computer science. The sample is extracted from two earlier surveys conducted by the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DOS).

The first was the Job Creation Survey, which was fielded in the first half of 2012; the survey traced 1,300 individuals. It is worth noting that DOS conducts the Job Creation Survey biannually. The survey covers about 40,000 households per round, from all the governorates of the Kingdom, through a stratified cluster sample on two phases, representatives at the levels of the Kingdom, regions, provinces and urban and rural areas.

The second source for the sample frame of graduates was the Household Expenditure and Income Survey of 2010, providing information on the 624 individuals who were contacted as part of this study. DOS conducts the Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) every two years. The survey covers about 14,000 families from all governorates of the Kingdom. Similar to the sample of the Job Creation survey, the sample of the HEIS is extracted based on a two-stage stratified cluster sampling technique to allow for national, province and urban/rural representation.

The final sample of this graduate tracer study was extracted from the above two survey samples, after the exclusion of districts that had less than 20 eligible individuals to facilitate data collection.

The total sample size actually collected is 1,873 observations. Out of which 1,539 questionnaires were fully completed and eligible for data analysis.