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Women in STEM: longitudinal and completion rate analysis

Prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics 

Date published:
20 September 2022

Topics

Diversity in STEM
Science, technology and innovation

Publisher

Department of Industry, Science and Resources

This report looks at the employment and further study outcomes of students who finished higher education in 2011. It has data for different demographic groups.

The report also analyses the completion rates of students who started an undergraduate degree in 2012.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) prepared this report for our department. It’s part of our work to collect and present data on girls’ and women’s participation in STEM.

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The interactive STEM Equity Monitor includes some results of this research.

More information

The ABS prepared this report using data from the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project 
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