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American Association of Geographers

Profile of the AAG Membership, 2008

Table 1. AAG Membership by Sex and Highest Degree Attained, 2008¹

	Female		Male		Not Reported		Total
	Number	Percent²	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Bachelors	648	18.32	939	15.57	3	0.58	1,590	15.77
Masters	1,215	34.35	1,660	27.52	5	0.97	2,880	28.57
Doctorate	1,196	33.81	2,840	47.08	29	5.65	4,065	40.32
Undetermined³	478	13.51	593	9.83	476	92.79	1,547	15.34
Total	3,537	100.00	6,032	100.00	513	100.00	10,082⁴	100.00

Because many individuals list anticipated degrees in the database, degree totals include only cases where date of degree has passed (that is, up to and including 2008). Data reflect actual membership on 12/31/2008.
This is the percentage of each sex holding a particular type of degree.
This category includes cases where degree was not reported or highest degree was not clear.
Discrepancies in total membership numbers between these tables and previously published figure of 10,396 arise from database accounting inconsistencies.

Table 2. AAG Membership by Sex and Employment Category, 2008

Employment Type	Female		Male		Not Reported		Total
	Number	Percent¹	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
College/University ²	586	26.03	1,651	73.35	14	0.62	2,251	22.33
K12 ³	9	47.37	10	52.63	0	0	19	0.19
Student	454	43.28	591	56.34	4	0.38	1,049	10.40
Federal Government	48	28.07	119	69.59	4	2.34	171	1.70
State/Local Government	27	21.95	96	78.05	0	0	123	1.22
Other Government	5	41.67	7	58.33	0	0	12	0.12
Military	0	0	13	100.00	0	0	13	0.13
Nonprofit	28	53.85	22	42.31	2	3.85	52	0.52
Research Center	17	27.87	44	72.13	0	0	61	0.61
Private Industry	49	30.82	107	67.30	3	1.89	159	1.58
Staff	71	62.28	15	13.16	28	24.56	114	1.13
Self-Employed	21	36.84	36	63.16	0	0	57	0.57
Unemployed	18	60.00	12	40.00	0	0	30	0.30
Retired	38	12.34	267	86.69	3	0.97	308	3.05
Not Reported	2,166	38.25	3,042	53.72	455	8.03	5,663	56.17
Total	3,537	35.08	6,032	59.83	513	5.09	10,082	100.00

For sex-specific categories, this value represents the percent of the employment category filled by the specified sex (e.g. 43.28 percent of those who reported the mselves as students were female). For “Total” percent, this value represents the percent of the total membership falling into a specified employment category.
This category includes faculty and researchers affiliated with colleges, universities, and community colleges.
This category includes teachers and administrators at the elementary and secondary levels.

Table 3. AAG Membership by Sex and Race/Ethnicity, 2008

Category	Female		Male		Not Reported		Total
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Asian	416	11.76	599	9.93	2	0.39	1017	10.09
African American	83	2.35	151	2.50	1	0.19	235	2.33
Hispanic	124	3.51	184	3.05	0	0.00	308	3.05
Native Alaskan	1	0.03	2	0.03	0	0.00	3	0.03
Native American	14	0.40	20	0.33	0	0.00	34	0.34
Pacific Islander	10	0.28	15	0.25	0	0.00	25	0.25
White, Non-Hispanic	1,900	53.72	3,061	50.75	9	1.75	4,970	49.30
Not Reported	989	27.96	2,000	33.16	501	97.66	3,490	34.62
Total	3,537	100.00	6,032	100.00	513	100.00	10,082	100.00