Published: 1994
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This survey is a followup to the Teacher Survey from SCHOOLS AND STAFFING SURVEY, 1987-1988 : [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 9846) and is the fifth component of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), conducted one year after the base-year data collection. The other four components of the SASS are the Teacher Demand and Shortage Survey, School Administrator Survey, School Survey, and Teacher Survey. The Teacher Followup Survey (TFS), designed to update data on teacher career patterns and plans and to determine attrition rates, queries a subsample of teachers in the profession during the school year 1987-1988 and has two components : teachers who left the teaching profession between the school years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989 (leavers) and teachers who remained in the profession (stayers). For both groups, questions were asked on topics such as current activity, occupation, career patterns, educational pursuits, future plans, attitudes toward the teaching profession, and overall job satisfaction ... Cf. : http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06270.xml.