The data

Take the numbers with you

Every figure on this site is downloadable. A number you can read but not check is only half a citation, so here is the whole aggregate layer as one tidy file — with the source, the denominator and the collection method on every single row.

What is in it

Federal statistics on pay, employment and education, re-published with attribution, plus this project's own measurements: how negative each source of public nursing talk actually is, which themes recur across screened accounts, and the funnel from collected post to screened account.

What is deliberately not in it

No quotes, post text, usernames, links to individual posts, or survey free-text. The scraped corpus is not this project's to license, and survey responses carry their own consent terms. Only the aggregate layer is published. That boundary is enforced by the exporter, which reads the aggregated site files and has no access to the corpus at all.

Licence

Rows measured by this project are offered under CC BY 4.0 — use them anywhere, credit Career Field Notes. Rows whose source is a US federal agency are US-government works and carry no copyright at all; they are attributed because that is honest, not because a licence compels it. Apply the right rule per row using the source column rather than assuming one blanket licence.

Read the sample_type column before comparing rows

It is the most important column in the file. A BLS establishment survey, a household survey and this project's non-probability sample of public posts are three different kinds of evidence, and putting them in one column of a chart as though they were interchangeable is the single easiest way to produce something confidently wrong. The screened-account counts describe what was discussed and never how common it is in the workforce.

Citing it

Career Field Notes, Registered Nurse aggregate figures, https://careerfieldnotes.com/data/. Each row carries its own original source; cite that source directly where the row is federal data.