Hello, fellow researchers!

In Europe, we have the Bolognia system of higher education, which started in 1999.

That is more than 20 years ago.

Recently a fellow colleague complained and got when she filled my research survey because I do not have the old degrees listed.

The old degrees have been redefined and now we have Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees, and Ph.D. degrees.

The degrees have been redesigned so the people who completed something in between either had to pass additional exams to get a certain degree or they studied for a Ph.D. for a shorter period of time. Or they didn't do anything at all and stayed at this degree level.

Might I add that a very little number of people have this specific degree (more than a Master's degree and less than a P.hD.)

To conclude: Should we keep adding degrees that stopped being issued 20 years ago in the demographic data part of our research surveys?