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Transparency in Statistical Information for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and All Federal Statistical Agencies

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee On National Statistics,Panel on Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

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Transparency in Statistical Information for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and All Federal Statistical Agencies

Widely available, trustworthy government statistics are essential for policy makers and program administrators at all levels of government, for private sector decision makers, for researchers, and for the media and the public. In the United States, principal statistical agencies as well as units and programs in many other agencies produce various key statistics in areas ranging from the science and engineering enterprise to education and economic welfare. Official statistics are often the result of complex data collection, processing, and estimation methods. These methods can be challenging for agencies to document and for users to understand. At the request of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), this report studies issues of documentation and archiving of NCSES statistical data products in order to enable NCSES to enhance the transparency and reproducibility of the agency's statistics and facilitate improvement of the statistical program workflow processes of the agency and its contractors. Transparency in Statistical Information for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and All Federal Statistical Agencies also explores how NCSES could work with other federal statistical agencies to facilitate the adoption of currently available documentation and archiving standards and tools.

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Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population

Evolving Needs

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Evaluate the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Approach to Measuring the Science and Engineering Workforce

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Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population

Evolving Needs

The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation's principal statistical agencies, is charged to collect, acquire, analyze, report, and disseminate statistical data related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and to the public. NCSES data, based primarily on several flagship surveys, have become the major evidence base for American science and technology policy, and the agency is well respected globally for these data. This report assesses and provides guidance on NCSES's approach to measuring the science and engineering workforce population in the United States. It also proposes a framework for measuring the science and engineering workforce in the next decade and beyond, with flexibility to examine emerging issues related to this unique population while at the same time allowing for stability in the estimation of key trends

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Using the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Workforce Statistics Programs

By: National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Assessing the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics

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Using the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Workforce Statistics Programs

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has long collected information on the number and characteristics of individuals with education or employment in science and engineering and related fields in the United States. An important motivation for this effort is to fulfill a congressional mandate to monitor the status of women and minorities in the science and engineering workforce. Consequently, many statistics are calculated by race or ethnicity, gender, and disability status. For more than 25 years, NSF obtained a sample frame for identifying the target population for information it gathered from the list of respondents to the decennial census long-form who indicated that they had earned a bachelors or higher degree. The probability that an individual was sampled from this list was dependent on both demographic and employment characteristics. But, the source for the sample frame will no longer be available because the census long-form is being replaced as of the 2010 census with the continuous collection of detailed demographic and other information in the new American Community Survey (ACS). At the request of NSF's Science Resources Statistics Division, the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council formed a panel to conduct a workshop and study the issues involved in replacing the decennial census long-form sample with a sample from the ACS to serve as the frame for the information the NSF gathers. The workshop had 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.

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Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee On National Statistics,Panel on the Scope Components and Key Characteristics of a 21st-Century Data Infrastructure

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Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee On National Statistics,Panel on the Scope Components and Key Characteristics of a 21st-Century Data Infrastructure

Historically, the U.S. national data infrastructure has relied on the operations of the federal statistical system and the data assets that it holds. Throughout the 20th century, federal statistical agencies aggregated survey responses of households and businesses to produce information about the nation and diverse subpopulations. The statistics created from such surveys provide most of what people know about the well-being of society, including health, education, employment, safety, housing, and food security. The surveys also contribute to an infrastructure for empirical social- and economic-sciences research. Research using survey-response data, with strict privacy protections, led to important discoveries about the causes and consequences of important societal challenges and also informed policymakers. Like other infrastructure, people can easily take these essential statistics for granted. Only when they are threatened do people recognize the need to protect them. Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good develops a vision for a new data infrastructure for national statistics and social and economic research in the 21st century. This report describes how the country can improve the statistical information so critical to shaping the nation's future, by mobilizing data assets and blending them with existing survey data.

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State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

By: National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Research and Development Priorities for the U.S. Census Bureau's State and Local Government Statistics Program

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State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

Since the early days of the nation, the federal government has collected information on the revenues, expenditures, and other features of state and local jurisdictions and their operations. Today, these data are collected primarily by the Governments Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, which has conducted a census of governments every 5 years since 1957. The division also manages a program of related annual and quarterly surveys, as well as a comprehensive directory of state and local governments. All of this work is now taking place in an environment of constrained resources, and there have been cutbacks in the availability and dissemination of the data. In this context, State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads documents the uses of the state and local data and assesses the quality of the data for those uses. This book provides in-depth consideration of the efficiency of the surveys; the user base; and the timeliness, relevance, and quality of the data series. It also provides valuable background information and analysis and offers suggestions for program improvements. This information will be valuable to policy makers, state and local government workers, government contractors, budget analysts, economists, demographers, and others who rely on these data on government at the state and local levels and have a stake in ensuring that limited resources do not compromise the quality of the data on which they rely.

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State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

By: Panel on Research and Development Priorities for the U.S. Census Bureau's State and Local Government Statistics Program,National Research Council

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State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

By: Panel on Research and Development Priorities for the U.S. Census Bureau's State and Local Government Statistics Program,National Research Council

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A Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee On National Statistics,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Create a Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

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A Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee On National Statistics,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Create a Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is one of the U.S. Census Bureau's major surveys with features making it a uniquely valuable resource for researchers and policy analysts. However, the Census Bureau faces the challenge of protecting the confidentiality of survey respondents which has become increasingly difficult because numerous databases exist with personal identifying information that collectively contain data on household finances, home values, purchasing behavior, and other SIPP-relevant characteristics. A Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation addresses these issues and how to make data from SIPP available to researchers and policymakers while protecting the confidentiality of survey respondents. The report considers factors such as evolving privacy risks, development of new methods for protecting privacy, the nature of the data collected through SIPP, the practice of linking SIPP data with administrative data, the types of data products produced, and the desire to provide timely access to SIPP data. The report seeks to balance minimizing the risk of disclosure against allowing researchers and policymakers to have timely access to data that support valid inferences.

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Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation

By: National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on the Census Bureau's Reengineered Survey of Income and Program Participation

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Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Beginning in 2006, the Census Bureau embarked on a program to reengineer the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to reduce its costs and improve data quality and timeliness. The Bureau also requested the National Academies to consider the advantages and disadvantages of strategies for linking administrative records and survey data, taking account of the accessibility of relevant administrative records, the operational feasibility of linking, the quality and usefulness of the linked data, and the ability to provide access to the linked data while protecting the confidentiality of individual respondents. In response, this volume first examines the history of SIPP and reviews the survey's purpose, value, strengths, and weaknesses. The book examines alternative uses of administrative records in a reengineered SIPP and, finally, considers innovations in SIPP design and data collection, including the proposed use of annual interviews with an event history calendar.

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Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Fiscal Year 2015

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Fiscal Year 2015

At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from academia, industry, medicine, and other scientific and engineering environments to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards laboratories, of which there are now seven, as well as the adequacy of the laboratories' resources. Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2015 assesses the organization's technical programs, the portfolio of scientific expertise within the organization, the adequacy of the organization's facilities, equipment, and human resources, and the effectiveness by which the organization disseminates its program outputs.

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Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates

Priorities for 2000 and Beyond

By: National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas

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Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates

Priorities for 2000 and Beyond

By: National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas

Recent trends in federal policies for social and economic programs have increased the demand for timely, accurate estimates of income and poverty for states, counties, and even smaller areas. Every year more than $130 billion in federal funds is allocated to states and localities through formulas that use such estimates. These funds support a wide range of programs that include child care, community development, education, job training, nutrition, and public health. A new program of the U.S. Census Bureau is now providing more timely estimates for these programs than those from the decennial census, which have been used for many years. These new estimates are being used to allocate more than $7 billion annually to school districts, through the Title I program that supports educationally disadvantaged children. But are these estimates as accurate as possible given the available data? How can the statistical models and data that are used to develop the estimates be improved? What should policy makers consider in selecting particular estimates? This new book from the National Research Council provides guidance for improving the Census Bureau's program and for policy makers who use such estimates for allocating funds.

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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Fiscal Year 2016

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Assessment of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Fiscal Year 2016

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Assessment of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from academia, industry, medicine, and other scientific and engineering communities to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards laboratories, of which there are now seven, as well as the adequacy of the laboratories' resources. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology: Fiscal Year 2016 assesses the scientific and technical work performed by the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the accomplisments, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.

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0309453275

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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Fiscal Year 2011

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Panel on Nanoscale Science and Technology

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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Fiscal Year 2011

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Panel on Nanoscale Science and Technology

Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has annually assembled panels of experts to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards laboratories. In 2011, the NRC evaluated three of the six NIST laboratories: the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) and the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). Each of these was addressed individually by a separate panel of experts; this report assesses CNST.

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An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Fiscal Year 2018

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Review of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Fiscal Year 2018

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Review of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2018 assesses the scientific and technical work performed by four divisions of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physical Measurement Laboratory. This publication reviews technical reports and technical program descriptions prepared by NIST staff and summarizes the findings of the authoring panel.

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0309485452

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An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory

Fiscal Year 2017

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Review of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory

Fiscal Year 2017

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on NIST Technical Programs,Panel on Review of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

The mission of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to "promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology for engineered systems in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life." To support this mission the EL has developed thrusts in smart manufacturing, construction, and cyberphysical systems; in sustainable and energy-efficient manufacturing materials and infrastructure; and in disaster-resilient buildings, infrastructure, and communities. The technical work of the EL is performed in five divisions - Intelligent Systems, Materials and Structural Systems, Energy and Environment, Systems Integration, and Fire Research - and in two offices - the Applied Economics Office and the Smart Grid Program Office. At the request of the acting director of NIST, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assesses the scientific and technical work performed by the NIST Engineering Laboratory (EL). This publication reviews technical reports and technical program descriptions prepared by NIST staff summarizes the findings of the authoring panel.

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Book's by Panel on Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

Transparency in Statistical Information for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and All Federal Statistical Agencies

Transparency in Statistical Information for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and All Federal Statistical Agencies

Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population

Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population

Using the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Workforce Statistics Programs

Using the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Workforce Statistics Programs

Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good

Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good

State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads

A Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

A Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates

Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates

An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory

An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory

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