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Project Title:
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Assessing the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics
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PIN:
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CNST-I-06-03-A
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Major Unit:
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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Sub Unit:
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Committee on National Statistics
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RSO:
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Plewes, Tom
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Project Scope
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This ad hoc committee will conduct a study of the issues involved in using information from the American Community Survey (ACS) to serve as a basis for identifying college graduates to sample in on-going National Science Foundation surveys, to improve surveys of scientists, engineers, and other college graduates, and to enhance understanding of the education and employment status of the college-educated population. The project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The approximate start date for the project is September 15, 2006.
The study is requested by the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics, which is working with the Census Bureau to add a question to the ACS on field of bachelor's degree. The study will address the issues involved in using the American Community Survey (ACS) to collect information necessary to draw the sample for the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and other human resources surveys, and to improve understanding of the education and employment status of the science and engineering workforce. A workshop will be conducted with the specific objective of identifying issues for the collection of field of degree information on the ACS with regard to goals, content, statistical methodology, data quality, and data products. The workshop will also review NSF's assessment of the potential of the addition of this information as a screening element for subsequent inquiries such as the National Survey of College Graduates, which now uses level of degree information from the decennial census long form. In addition, the workshop will consider the relevance and adequacy of ACS products for meeting current and emerging data needs for NSF/SRS. Following the workshop, the panel will deliberate to prepare a report with its recommendations. A final report is expected to be issued at the end of the project in April 2008.
NOTE: The Project Scope above is an updated version from that originally posted in June 2007.
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Project Duration:
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18 months
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