IT Undergraduate Employability Survey in Sri Lanka with 345 Responses

Sri Lankan IT undergraduates participated in a structured survey examining the influence of UI/UX, soft, and technical skills on employability. The dataset contains 345 responses analyzed using PLS-SEM, authored by Dhamindi Senadheera and last updated in April 2026. It investigates the mediating roles of self-efficacy and proficiency levels, with gender as a moderating factor.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between skill types and employability based on the described survey constructs.
• Analyzing the mediating effect of self-efficacy on skill-to-employment pathways as described in the study.
• Investigating gender as a moderating factor in skill assessment for employability within the Sri Lankan IT sector.
• Assessing the role of proficiency levels in mediating technical skills and employability outcomes.

Strengths

• Dataset size is 62.3 KB, indicating a focused and manageable scope.
• Includes 345 survey responses from a defined population of IT undergraduates.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a specific geographic and temporal bias inherent to the single survey in Sri Lanka.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Structured surveys administered to 345 IT undergraduates.

Time Range

Survey collection date is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 17:51:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sri Lanka