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Graduate tracking

Employment rate of higher education graduates 36 months after graduation
2020/21
84,9%
Share of unemployed graduates from higher education institutions 36 months after graduation
2020/21
2,2%

ATRACK (“Absolvent:innen-Tracking”, graduate tracking) is a register-based full survey of all graduates and dropouts from Austrian higher education institutions which is carried out on behalf of a consortium consisting of public universities and universities of applied sciences under the leadership of the University of Vienna. The data enables the statistical analysis of career starts and paths of all higher education graduates and dropouts. 

ATRACK can be used to evaluate the labour market status, gross salary of employees or the economic sector (ÖNACE) of the workplace according to demographic (e.g. gender, age) or study-related characteristics (e.g. type of study, ISCED 2013 fields of education and training) on certain reference dates before or after the students graduated/dropped out. The sources of data are the base registers of the Register-based Census and the Register-based Labour Market Statistics.

 

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Graduate Tracking. Compiled on 31 January 2025. For data privacy protection reasons, the statistical disclosure control method of "Record Swapping" has been used on a part of the data. Therefore, no reliable assertions can be made for analyses based on very small cell values. The population consists of master graduates from higher education institutions in the academic years 2008/09 to 2020/21 who were under 35 years of age at the time of graduation. Individuals who have already obtained a degree of equal or higher value or who attended further education in the academic year following the graduation are excluded from the analyses. – To determine the cutoff date, 36 months are added to the graduation date. The formation of labour market status is dominated by employment before unemployment and further periods of education.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Graduate Tracking. Compiled on 31 January 2025. For data privacy protection reasons, the statistical disclosure control method of "Record Swapping" has been used on a part of the data. Therefore, no reliable assertions can be made for analyses based on very small cell values. The population consists of bachelor graduates from higher education institutions in the academic years 2008/09 to 2020/21 who were under 35 years of age at the time of graduation. Individuals who have already obtained a degree of equal or higher value or who attended further education in the academic year following the graduation are excluded from the analyses. – To determine the cutoff date, 36 months are added to the graduation date. The formation of labour market status is dominated by employment before unemployment and further periods of education.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Graduate Tracking. Compiled on 31 January 2025. For data privacy protection reasons, the statistical disclosure control method of "Record Swapping" has been used on a part of the data. Therefore, no reliable assertions can be made for analyses based on very small cell values. The population consists of diploma graduates from higher education institutions in the academic years 2008/09 to 2020/21 who were under 35 years of age at the time of graduation. Individuals who have already obtained a degree of equal or higher value or who attended further education in the academic year following the graduation are excluded from the analyses. – To determine the cutoff date, 36 months are added to the graduation date. The formation of labour market status is dominated by employment before unemployment and further periods of education.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Graduate Tracking. Compiled on 31 January 2025. For data privacy protection reasons, the statistical disclosure control method of "Record Swapping" has been used on a part of the data. Therefore, no reliable assertions can be made for analyses based on very small cell values. The population consists of phd/doctorate graduates from higher education institutions in the academic years 2008/09 to 2020/21. Individuals who have already obtained a degree of equal or higher value or who attended further education in the academic year following the graduation are excluded from the analyses. – To determine the cutoff date, 36 months are added to the graduation date. The formation of labour market status is dominated by employment before unemployment and further periods of education.

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2024-01-31 file Salary gap between Bachelorʼs and Masterʼs graduates is shrinking
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2023-04-13 file High labor force participation of higher education graduates
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Last updated on 2025-01-31.