66 ARL Statistics Questionnaire Instructions and Worksheet
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If the library uses an electronic counter that captures entrances and exits, divide by two to obtain the entries only.
If the library does not use an electronic counter, sampling based on a typical week may be used to extrapolate to a
full year.
UNIVERSITY CHARACTERISTICS: Doctor’s Degrees, Faculty, and Enrollment
Question 24. Doctor's Degrees. Report the number awarded during the 2014–15 fiscal year. For the purposes of
this report, Doctor's Degrees includes research/scholarship degrees and professional practice degrees (e.g., Ph.D,
D.Ed., D.P.A., M.D., J.D., etc.) as enumerated in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (IPEDS). Any exceptions should be footnoted.
Question 25. Doctor’s Degrees Fields. For the purposes of this report, Doctor’s Degrees fields are defined as the
specific discipline specialties enumerated in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (IPEDS) “Completions” Survey. Any exceptions should be footnoted.
Question 26. Instructional Faculty. Instructional faculty are defined by the U.S. Dept. of Education as:
members of the instruction/research staff who are employed full-time as defined
by the institution, including faculty with released time for research and faculty
on sabbatical leave.
Full-time counts generally exclude faculty who are employed to teach fewer than two semesters, three
quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions replacements for faculty on sabbatical leave or leave
without pay faculty for preclinical and clinical medicine faculty who are donating their services faculty who are
members of military organizations and paid on a different pay scale from civilian employees academic officers,
whose primary duties are administrative and graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses. Please
be sure the number reported, and the basis for counting, are consistent with those for 2013–14 (unless in previous
years faculty were counted who should have been excluded according to the above definition). Please footnote
any discrepancies.
Questions 27-30. Enrollment. U.S. libraries should use the Fall 2014 enrollment figures reported to the
Department of Education on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey. Please check these
figures against the enrollment figures reported to ARL last year to ensure consistency and accuracy. NOTE: In
the past, the number of part-time students reported was FTE the number now reported to IPEDS is a head count
of part-time students. Canadian libraries should note that the category “graduate students” as reported here
includes all post-baccalaureate students.
FOOTNOTES
Please consult the data entry Web interface (www.arlstatistics.org) for a copy of last year’s footnotes. These can be
found under “Data Repository” after you login into www.arlstatistics.org. Explanatory footnotes will be included
with the published statistics. Reporting libraries are urged to record in the footnote section any information that
would clarify the figures submitted, e.g., the inclusion and exclusion of branch campus libraries (see the "General
Instructions" for definition of branch campus libraries). Please make an effort to word your footnotes in a manner
consistent with notes appearing in the published report, so that the ARL Office can interpret your footnotes
correctly.
NOTE: Any large shifts in reported data compared to last year should be explained with a footnote.
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© 2015 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC
If the library uses an electronic counter that captures entrances and exits, divide by two to obtain the entries only.
If the library does not use an electronic counter, sampling based on a typical week may be used to extrapolate to a
full year.
UNIVERSITY CHARACTERISTICS: Doctor’s Degrees, Faculty, and Enrollment
Question 24. Doctor's Degrees. Report the number awarded during the 2014–15 fiscal year. For the purposes of
this report, Doctor's Degrees includes research/scholarship degrees and professional practice degrees (e.g., Ph.D,
D.Ed., D.P.A., M.D., J.D., etc.) as enumerated in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (IPEDS). Any exceptions should be footnoted.
Question 25. Doctor’s Degrees Fields. For the purposes of this report, Doctor’s Degrees fields are defined as the
specific discipline specialties enumerated in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (IPEDS) “Completions” Survey. Any exceptions should be footnoted.
Question 26. Instructional Faculty. Instructional faculty are defined by the U.S. Dept. of Education as:
members of the instruction/research staff who are employed full-time as defined
by the institution, including faculty with released time for research and faculty
on sabbatical leave.
Full-time counts generally exclude faculty who are employed to teach fewer than two semesters, three
quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions replacements for faculty on sabbatical leave or leave
without pay faculty for preclinical and clinical medicine faculty who are donating their services faculty who are
members of military organizations and paid on a different pay scale from civilian employees academic officers,
whose primary duties are administrative and graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses. Please
be sure the number reported, and the basis for counting, are consistent with those for 2013–14 (unless in previous
years faculty were counted who should have been excluded according to the above definition). Please footnote
any discrepancies.
Questions 27-30. Enrollment. U.S. libraries should use the Fall 2014 enrollment figures reported to the
Department of Education on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey. Please check these
figures against the enrollment figures reported to ARL last year to ensure consistency and accuracy. NOTE: In
the past, the number of part-time students reported was FTE the number now reported to IPEDS is a head count
of part-time students. Canadian libraries should note that the category “graduate students” as reported here
includes all post-baccalaureate students.
FOOTNOTES
Please consult the data entry Web interface (www.arlstatistics.org) for a copy of last year’s footnotes. These can be
found under “Data Repository” after you login into www.arlstatistics.org. Explanatory footnotes will be included
with the published statistics. Reporting libraries are urged to record in the footnote section any information that
would clarify the figures submitted, e.g., the inclusion and exclusion of branch campus libraries (see the "General
Instructions" for definition of branch campus libraries). Please make an effort to word your footnotes in a manner
consistent with notes appearing in the published report, so that the ARL Office can interpret your footnotes
correctly.
NOTE: Any large shifts in reported data compared to last year should be explained with a footnote.
