Workshops on Personnel Data Needs and Criteria in the Sciences

受资助者将举办三个讲习班，以审查三个主要领域的数据需求和确定科学人员的标准：物理科学，包括数学和计算机科学；生命科学；以及社会和行为科学。这些讲习班将为国家科学基金会在20世纪90年代对科学人员的调查数据收集活动奠定基础。讲习班由来自专业协会、工业界、学术界和政府的代表组成，对于确定重要的数据问题和将人员纳入现有和新出现的科学领域的要求至关重要。美国科学家和工程师的信息是由美国国家科学基金会通过其科学技术人员数据系统（STPDS）开发的。该系统提供了美国科学家和工程师的数量、人口统计、教育、就业和地理特征。这些数据由三个主要的NSF两年一次的调查收集：博士学位获得者调查；全国自然和社会科学家和工程师调查；以及最近的理工科毕业生调查。

The grantee will conduct three workshops to examine data needs and criteria for identification of scientific personnel in three principal areas: the physical sciences, including mathematics and computer sciences; the life sciences; and the social and behavioral sciences. These workshops will lay the groundwork for the survey data collecting activities on scientific personnel during the decade of the 1990's by the National Science Foundation. The workshops, comprised of representatives from the professional societies, industry, academe and government, are essential to identifying important data issues and requirements for the inclusion of personnel in existing as well as newly-emerging scientific fields. Information on the Nation's scientists and engineers (S/E's) is developed by the National Science Foundation through its Scientific and Technical Personnel Data System (STPDS). This System provides numbers as well as demographic, educational, employment, and geographic characteristics of U.S. scientists and engineers. These data are collected by three major NSF biennial surveys: the Survey of Doctorate Recipients; the National Survey of Natural and Social Scientists and Engineers; and the Survey of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates.