US Chiropractor Demographics and Student Loan Debt Survey, 2025

Samuel M. Schut's dataset contains 1,455 responses from a cross-sectional electronic survey of US chiropractors conducted between February and March 2025. The data covers respondent demographics, financial characteristics, student loan debt, loan relief opportunities, and perceptions of chiropractic training value. The dataset is available on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between student loan debt and reported gross income based on financial characteristics.
• Model career satisfaction and return on investment perceptions based on survey responses about educational value.
• Assess eligibility and awareness of loan relief programs among chiropractors based on the loan relief survey domain.
• Profile demographic characteristics of chiropractic professionals in the United States.

Strengths

• Contains 1,455 survey responses, providing a substantial sample size.
• Includes specific financial metrics such as mean student loan debt at graduation ($176,297) and mean gross income in 2023 ($99,068).
• Survey was conducted over a defined period (February 2025 to March 2025).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect self-reporting bias inherent to survey data.

Provenance

Source

Samuel M. Schut via figshare.

Collection Method

A 38-item cross-sectional, anonymous, electronic survey distributed to chiropractors who graduated from a US-based, Council on Chiropractic Education-accredited Doctor of Chiropractic program.

Time Range

Survey conducted February 2025 to March 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 17:22:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States.