SMIT Engineering Career Aspirations Dataset Demographics, BFI-10 Personality Traits, and RIASEC Career Interests

Description

The dataset comprises 1,863 engineering students and contains demographic information, semester details, career interests, and BFI-10 personality responses. It includes gender, age, region/state, semester, preferred career field, and 10 Likert-scale BFI-10 items representing the Big Five personality traits. The dataset supports analysis of the relationship between personality characteristics and students’ career interests.

Steps to reproduce

Obtain ethical clearance from the appropriate Institutional Ethics Committee before data collection. Develop a structured questionnaire covering demographics, BFI-10 personality traits, and career interests. Collect responses from engineering students through an online survey form. Export and organize the collected responses in spreadsheet format. Remove incomplete, duplicate, or invalid responses and standardize the data. Encode categorical and Likert-scale responses consistently. Compile and save the cleaned dataset in Excel/CSV format for analysis and reuse.

Institutions

• Sikkim Manipal University

  Sikkim, Gangtok

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