READ ME file for Quantitative Phase of Data Collection ‘Employability and Capitals: The Role of Socio-economic background’ Dataset DOI: ReadMe Author: Hazel McCafferty, University of Southampton, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1606-5891 This dataset supports the thesis entitled: ‘Employability and Capitals: The Role of Socio-economic background’ AWARDED BY: University of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2024 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA This dataset contains two items: an SPSS file with responses to a survey from 379 undergraduates and a codebook to enable the survey data to be interpreted. The data was initially collected in Qualtrics and subsequently cleaned and anonymised in SPSS v.26. Date of data collection: November 2022 – April 2023 Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton This work was supported by the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership under Grant No: ES/P000673/1. Dataset available under CC BY licence. Related publication: [ADD IN] Full ethical approval for this study was obtained via the University of Southampton, Faculty of Social Sciences Committee, ERGO number: 78421 Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K. Date: