Small area models for analysing job placement survey data of the STELLA consortium

Job placement is a very important issue in nowadays governance of universities and data on career of graduates in the labour market are crucial also for evaluating the performance of the courses of study. The University of Pisa is member of the STELLA consortium whose aim is to perform periodic sample and census surveys for investigating and monitoring the career of graduates on the labor market. In this paper the level of satisfaction for the coherence of the employment condition with the studies of graduates one year after the degree is analysed. Small Area Models (SAE) are used to obtain more accurate estimates for the unplanned domains defined by the course of study. Focus is on the Economics and Statistics master's of science or single-cycle degree courses of the University of Brescia and Pisa.