<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>The Competitiveness of the University Graduates in the Labour Market: Graduates Survey, May - August 2003</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/JM50NG</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2023-04-14</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-08-19T06:49:43Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to analyse employed graduates of higher education schools of classes of 1996-2002 opinion about professional preparation. If they feel that professional preparation of specialists gained in those schools meets the needs of labour market.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to analyse employed graduates of higher education schools of classes of 1996-2002 opinion about professional preparation. If they feel that professional preparation of specialists gained in those schools meets the needs of labour market.
respondents were asked if preparation for professional activity acquired during studies is enough. If it is not enough, respondents were asked to tell what is missing the most. It was analysed what theoretical news, abilities, personal qualities are missing the most. Respondents were asked if it would be appropriate to organize students internship in company. Respondents were asked how internship organization for students could be improved. It was analysed for what period of time respondents are employed, based on what contract and what are their form of occupation. Respondents were asked to indicate if they work by professional qualification acquired during studies and if their qualification meets workplace requirements. Respondents were asked if they are satisfied with their salary. Respondents were asked if they would like to improve their qualification, retrain. If yes, they were asked what kind of courses they would like to take. It was asked to indicate which form of studying would be most acceptable and who should pay for qualification improvement, retraining of specialists with higher education. Respondents were asked to indicate what part of their educational expenditures they could pay themselves. It was asked, what means could help graduates of higher education to be employed. age, general work experience/time, study cycle, if respondent currently is studying, education place.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: place of residence, name of the higher education institution the respondent graduated from, field of study, study program, year of graduation, gender, age, total work experience, level of study, current education of the respondent, place of education.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>tertiary education</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>graduates</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>higher education institutions</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>labour and employment</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2003-08-31</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Gruževskis, Boguslavas (The Institute of Labour and Social Research, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0003-1058-3927])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2011-10-13</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2003-05-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2003-08-31</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2003-05-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2003-08-31</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:relation>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/AT0C5Y" target="_blank"> The Competitiveness of the University Graduates in the Labour Market: Employers Survey, May - August 2003&lt;/a>&lt;/p></dcterms:relation><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>The data is available to the users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>, if not indicated otherwise. Individuals and organizations wishing to use data licensed differently must apply for access to the specific data (in written form or by email: &lt;a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt&lt;/a>). Regardless of the data access restrictions, everyone can browse and use all the descriptions of the data stored in the LiDA Dataverse repository (metadata, including fieldwork resources, research instruments and other data collection information) as well as other information under the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
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