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II-30a: Primary Source of Financial Support for Humanities Doctorate Recipients, 1998–2020*

* Percentages do not total to 100% for any year because this indicator does not track funding from foreign governments and other sources (these funds represent a very small share of humanities and arts students’ financial support).
** The category of “own resources” includes loans, personal savings, personal earnings outside the institutional sources listed, and earnings or savings of spouse, partner, or family.

Source: For years 1998–2006: National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago: Doctorate Recipients from United States Universities: Summary Report (Chicago, IL: NORC, 1999–2007). For 2007–2008: National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: Summary Report 2007–08, NSF 10-309 (Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2009), tables 22 and S-42. For remaining years, National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities (Data Tables, Years 2009–2020), https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/doctorates (accessed 2/15/2022). Table numbers for years: 2009—32; and 2010 to 2020—35. Data presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

The data on which this indicator is based are collected as part of the federal Survey of Earned Doctorates, a national census of recently graduated doctorate recipients.

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