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. 2020 Mar 10;15(3):e0230312. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230312

Table 7. Respondent status codes at time of reported harassment.

Coded Value Assigned category Example responses*
1 Assistant Professor tenure track; visiting assistant professor; untenured; junior faculty; research assistant professor; pre-tenure
2 Associate Professor tenured associate professor; just tenured; tenured faculty; tenured professor
3 Full Professor full tenured professor; full professor; department chair; dean
4 Adjunct Professor adjunct instructor; adjunct professor; adjunct lecturer; adjunct faculty; contingent faculty; temporary faculty
5 Lecturer instructor; visting lecturer; teaching fellow; visiting scholar; visiting faculty; off-tenure track; non-tenure track; part-time professor; senior lecturer; teaching staff
6 Graduate Students (PhD) ABD; PhD student; PhD candidate; doctoral student; doctoral candidate; prospective PhD student; 5th-year graduate student; MA/PhD student; TA/PhD student; visiting graduate student fellow; PhD admit
7 MA Student Masters student; MFA student; MA student; MSc student; MBA student; pre-Masters student; MS student
8 Undergraduate undergrad TA; undergraduate student; freshman in college; sophomore in college; junior in college; graduating senior; applying to graduate schools; 5th-year undergrad; post-bacc; undergraduate research assistant; 20-year-old student; BA student; college student
9 Staff research technician; admnistrator; staff manager; employee; librarian; project manager; curator; registered nurse; teacher; director; coordinator
10 Postdoctorate post-doctorate student; research postdoc; post-graduate; administrative postdoc;
11 High School high school student; middle school student taking college classes
12 Multiple Status PhD student/Assistant Professor; graduate student and undergraduate student; assistant and associate; graduate student through assistant professor; student and then post-grad; at all levels
13 Graduate Students graduate student; research assistant; grad student; graduate school applicant; MA student applying to PhD programs; teaching assistant; post-MA; graduate teaching assistant; fresh out of grad school; law student; candidate for advanced degree; medical student
14 Faculty, Professor professor; faculty; colleague/professor; scholar
15 Other NA; witness; single; visitor; job candidate; job applicant; sober; trainee; naive; independent scholar; conference participant; research scientist; surgical resident; acquaintances of the students
16 Student student; student victims; student workers

*Typos and misspellings left uncorrected. Examples of statements from original data, separated by semicolon (right), the assigned category by research team (middle), and coded value for analysis (left).