Presented are highlights from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, focusing on: trends in doctorate production by field, sex, and citizenship; employment of science and engineering (S/E) doctorates; and science and mathematics education doctorates. Approximately 95 percent of the 1982 recipients of the Ph.D. and similar doctorates responded to a survey questionnaire. Data also include information for nonrespondents obtained from public sources. Recipients of first-professional degrees such as the M.D. are not included. Among the findings highlighted are those indicating that: the 1982 S/E doctorate of 17,600 was virtually unchanged from 1981, remaining 7 percent below the peak reached in 1972; that the representation of women continued to grow such that during the last 10 years the number of female S/E doctorates increased by 100 percent, while S/E doctorates awarded to men fell by 20 percent; and that non-U.S. citizens accounted for about 23 percent of new S/E doctorates in 1982. In addition, although doctorates with specialization in science/mathematics education peaked at 364 in 1972, they declined to only 136 in 1982; among those with definite employment commitments in the last three years, about three times as many had commitments to colleges or universities as to elementary or secondary schools. (JN)