astrojobs

Repository for astronomy degree and job related data. Based largely on Metcalfe 2008, PASP, 120, 229-234. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/528878

TL;DR version: jobregister_table.csv is a document with all AAS job register data from January 2002 through (currently) May 2016. Informative plots, including supplementary data, are available here: https://github.com/jrka/astrojobs/blob/master/jobregister_plots.pdf

To Add, Ways to Contribute:

Update funding table in actual dollars.
Add table of inflation indicies per year.
Combine aforementioned two tables to have inflation-adjusted budgets by year for comparison and plotting.
Any way to get astro-specific thesis counts from UMI database? Online support told me you cannot anymore.

Notes on Job Categories:

In 2008, the job categorization changed.
Here is how I combine the eight pre-2008 categories with the eight post-2008 categories into six new categories.

Old Categories	New Categories	This Work
TT (Tenure-Track)	Faculty Positions (tenure and tenure-track)	TT
PostV (Postdoc) & Rsrch (Research)	Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships	PV
Non-Tenure Track (NTT) & Visit (Visiting)	Faculty Positions (visiting and non-tenure)	NTT
MngOth & Other	Science Management & Other	MO
RsrchSp (Research Support)	Science Engineering & Scientific/Technical Staff	RS
	Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions	G

This is not a perfect split, especially with matching the previous Research category, though by eyeing through a few of those categorized as "Research," they seem to be along the lines of Postdocs.

Scripts:

search_jobregister.py: requires BeautifulSoup for crawling and scraping. If docrawl=True, produces jobregister_urls.txt. If doscrape=True, gather information from each URL in the job register archive. Save in groups of 100 as .pkl files. Read in all the .pkl files and create jobregister_table.csv for further analysis. Not particularly well set up to add incrementally. Not necessary to rerun to use analysis; the .txt and .csv files are in the repo.
plot_jobregister.py: produce some summary tables (see below) and plots (jobregister_plots.pdf). Requires pandas.

Tables Included:

Produced by search_jobregister.py:
- jobregister_urls.txt
- jobregister_table.csv
Update manually:
- degrees.txt: Estimates of astronomy PhDs produced per year via 3 sources, based on Metcalfe 2008 Table 1.
- Metcalfe2008_Table2.txt: To add yearly job register data from 1984-2002.
- funding.txt: Need to add this.
Produced by plot_jobregister.py:
- jobregister_categories_byyear.csv: Number of jobs in each category (see below) by year.
- jobregister_instclass_byyear.csv: Number of jobs in each institution class by year.

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