Response Evauation of the Survey of Industrial Research and Development

该项目将使人口普查局能够对每年一次的美国国家科学基金会工业研究与发展调查的大约100名受访者样本进行回应评估。美国人口普查局（Bureau of The Census）提议对填写年度调查问卷的行业官员进行面谈，以便这些公司的数据能得到更完整、更一致的报告。此外，在这个项目中获得的信息将使NSF能够评估现有的调查仪器，并改进它和它的指示。因此，所有公司的调查回答在未来几年应该更加完整和一致。这项调查是美国国家科学基金会衡量工业科学技术活动的重要组成部分，它收集了有关研究和开发的美元规模、资金来源、研发科学家和工程师的就业情况以及工业绩效的其他经济特征的数据。调查数据为决策者提供了有关工业研发支出和就业的广泛统计信息。因此，基金会希望通过这种反应评估来保持调查中收集和制表数据的高质量。

This project will enable the Bureau of the Census to perform a response evaluation of a sample of approximately 100 respondents to the annual NSF Survey of Industrial Research and Development. The Bureau of the Census proposes to interview the industry officials who complete the annual questionnaires so that the companies' data can be reported more completely and consistently. In addition, information acquired in this project will allow NSF to evaluate the current survey instrument and improve it and its instructions. As a result, survey responses from all companies should be more complete and consistent in future years. The survey, a vital element in NSF's efforts to measure scientific and technological activities in industry, collects data on dollar volume of research and development, sources of financing, employment of R&D scientists and engineers, and other economic characteristics of industrial performance. The survey data provide policy makers with a broad range of statistical information for industrial research and development spending and employment. Therefore, the Foundation desires to maintain, through this response evaluation, the high quality of the data collected and tabulated in the survey.