Update of Data on Scientists and Engineers in Selected Industrialized Countries

该项目将协助国家科学基金会汇编、标准化和分析关于法国、联合王国、西德德国和日本等工业化国家科学家和工程师的存量和就业的最新数据。在可能的情况下，将使用外国人口普查和劳动力数据，按详细的领域和选定的特征，如性别、年龄、教育资格以及经济和工业的分支，提供科学家和工程师的估计数。国家科学基金会在政府内主要负责收集和提供关于科技人员资源的统计数字和分析资料。国家科学基金会为四个大的工业化国家-日本、西德德国、法国和联合王国-建立了一个此类信息的数据库（协议号SRS-8813944），并已开始努力为意大利、加拿大、瑞典、台湾和韩国等选定的其他国家收集此类数据（协议号SRS 8907725）。该项目将利用预计明年将获得的新数据，以扩大数据库，进一步加强趋势分析。公共和私营部门的决策者都在寻求这类信息，这类信息也是大会授权的报告（如科学和工程指标）以及日益重要的报告《国际科学和技术数据更新》所需要的。

This project will assist NSF in compiling, standardizing and analyzing updated data on the stock and employment of scientists and engineers in the industrialized countries of France, the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Japan. Foreign census and labor force data will be used to provide estimates of scientists and engineers wherever possible by detailed fields and selected characteristics such as sex, age, educational qualifications and branch of economy and industry. The National Science Foundation has primary responsibility within the Government for collecting and providing statistics and analysis of information on scientific and technical personnel resources. NSF has established a data base of such information for four large industrialized countries--Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom (agreement number SRS-8813944) and has started efforts to collect such data for selected additional countries of Italy, Canada, Sweden, Taiwan and South Korea (agreement number SRS 8907725). This project will make use of new data which is expected to become available during the next year to increase the data base and further enhance the analysis of trends. This type of information is sought by decisionmakers in the pubic and private sectors and is needed for Congres- sionally mandated reports such as Science and Engineering Indicators as well as the increasingly important report International Science and Technology Data Update.