Graduate Careers Council of Australia
Course Experience Questionnaire Data 2002

General Notes

• The following files were generated from the 2002 GCCA CEQ survey.

• The data is provided in comma delimited format (CSV files), most recent spreadsheet programs will read these.

• Figures are provisional, pending confirmation.

• The files are nested by institution (DEST institution code), level of award and field of study. ASCED field of education codes have been recoded to the old field of study codes in order to maintain the time series.

• Figures are presented across the columns for the CEQ scales used by each institution.

The abbreviations for the scales are as follows:

GTS = Good Teaching Scale [CORE]
CGS = Clear Goals and Standards Scale
AWS = Appropriate Workload Scale
AAS = Appropriate Assessment Scale
GSS = Generic Skills Scale [CORE]
OSI = Overall Satisfaction Item [CORE]
IMS = Intellectual Motivation Scale
SSS = Student Support Scale
GQS = Graduate Qualities Scale
LRS = Learning Resources Scale
LCS = Learning Community Scale

SD = Strongly disagree (response 1, after reverse scored items are aligned)
D = Disagree (response 2)
U = Undecided (response 3)
A = Agree (response 4)
SA = Strongly agree (response 5)

‘SD’ might also mean ‘standard deviation’, depending on the context. Means and standard deviations are calculated to one decimal place. The data in these files include figures from both major fields of study.

For further details and explanations of these data, the reader is directed to the various Course Experience Questionnaire reports published by the GCCA.

The AV-CC/GCCA Code of Practice concerning the use of CEQ figures is also available for download here.

For further information about the data available on this site, users should contact (in the first instance) GCCA Research Manager, Bruce Guthrie on phone (02) 6367 5347 or email

Description of files available on this site:

1. ceq02.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and field of study. The mean and standard deviation are shown for each scale, and the national scale mean and N size is also shown.

2. option02.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and institution-generated faculty/degree/course code variable (where an institution included it). The mean and standard deviation are shown for each scale, and the N size is also shown. There are no national figures as the option codes are unique to each institution.

3. area02.csv shows  CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and 40 aggregated fields of study. Institutional and national means, standard deviations and response numbers are shown for each scale.

4. pcmaj02<scale>.csv: There are 11 files showing the percentage disagree-agree on the 5 point Likert scale by field of study for each scale and the overall satisfaction item. Column headings used are SD% (% strongly disagree), D% (% disagree), U% (% undecided), A% (% agree), and SA% (% strongly agree).

Pcmaj02AAS
Pcmaj02AWS
Pcmaj02CGS
Pcmaj02GSS
Pcmaj02GTS
Pcmaj02OSI
Pcmaj02IMS
Pcmaj02SSS
Pcmaj02GQS
Pcmaj02LRS
Pcmaj02LCS

5. pcoption02<scale>.csv: There are 11 files showing the percentage disagree-agree on the 5 point Likert scale by the institution-generated faculty/degree/course code variable (when used by an institution). Column headings used are SD% (% strongly disagree), D% (% disagree), U% (% undecided), A% (% agree), and SA% (% strongly agree).

Pcoption02AAS
Pcoption02AWS
Pcoption02CGS
Pcoption02GSS
Pcoption02GTS
Pcoption02OSI
Pcoption02IMS
Pcoption02SSS
Pcoption02GQS
Pcoption02LRS
Pcoption02LCS

6. pcarea02<scale>.csv: There are 11 files showing the percentage disagree-agree on the 5 point Likert scale by 40 aggregated fields of study. Column headings used are SD% (% strongly disagree), D% (% disagree), U% (% undecided), A% (% agree), and SA% (% strongly agree).

Pcarea02AAS
Pcarea02AWS
Pcarea02CGS
Pcarea02GSS
Pcarea02GTS
Pcarea02OSI
Pcarea02IMS
Pcarea02SSS
Pcarea02GQS
Pcarea02LRS
Pcarea02LCS

7. CEQapp02.csv shows CEQ figures for pass and honours degree graduates by institution and DETYA field of study. The institutional and national means are shown for each scale, and the N size is also shown. These are the figures which used to appear in the institutional appendices of the annual CEQ report.

Additional files with previous years CEQ data are also available on this site. They are in slightly different format (in terms of layout of data and variables) and users should consult the relevant information files for those years.

For further details and explanations of these data, the reader is directed to the various Course Experience Questionnaire reports published by the GCCA.