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NSF GSS BY DEGREE TOTAL

NSF Graduate Student Support. This is a fact table for the aggregation for post doctorate students (both Post Doc and Non-Faculty Research Staff) by degree type. It contains a record for a count of Post Doc or Non-Faculty Research Staff, by degree type (PhD or PhD Med), for each school in an institution for a fiscal year. The count in each record represents the "TOTAL", not a break-down by funding source.


Field Name Description Data Type Length
FISCAL_YEAR_KEY Use this field to join to another table with the same-name field (ie. FISCAL_YEAR_KEY) for fiscal year information. It shouldn't be used for reporting. VARCHAR2 4
INSTITUTION_KEY Use this field to join to another table with the same-name field (ie. INSTITUTION_KEY). VARCHAR2 6
NSF_DISCIPLINE_KEY Use this field to join the NSF DISCIPLINE table to other NSF tables with the same key. This field should not be used for reporting. VARCHAR2 3
NSF_GSS_DEGREE_KEY Use this field to join the NSF GSS DEGREE table with other NSF tables with this same field for degree information. This field should only be used for joining tables, not for reporting VARCHAR2 6
NSF_GSS_SCHOOL_KEY Use this field to join the NSF GSS SCHOOL table to other NSF tables with this same named field. This field is NOT used for reporting. VARCHAR2 10
STUDENT_COUNT Number of students NUMBER 6
WAREHOUSE_LOAD_DATE The date the records were last loaded/updated in this table in the Data Warehouse DATE 7

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