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Title Using the American community survey for the National Science Foundation's science and engineering workforce statistics programs / Panel on Assessing the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Division of Resources Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 88 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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"--Publisher's website.
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Subject American community survey.
American community survey.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
American community survey.
American community survey.
Scientists -- Supply and demand -- United States.
Scientists -- Supply and demand.
United States.
Scientists.
Engineers -- Supply and demand -- United States.
Engineers -- Supply and demand.
Household surveys -- United States.
Household surveys.
United States -- Census.
Genre/Form Census data.
Electronic books.
Census data.
Added Author National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Assessing the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics.
Other Form: Print version: Using the American community survey for the National Science Foundation's science and engineering workforce statistics programs. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2008 0309121531 9780309121538 (OCoLC)234146567
ISBN 9780309121545 (electronic book)
030912154X (electronic book)
0309121531
9780309121538