Quality Improvement Studies for the Industry R&D Survey

9317747 Scarr该行动规定了四项独立的任务，旨在衡量和提高NSF年度工业研究与发展调查产生的信息质量。这些任务是：1）补偿无响应; 2）质量评估; 3）范围、框架结构和样本设计; 4）邮寄和后续材料的评估。第五项任务，即实施调查改革的影响，也在这一行动下得到资助。根据1950年《国家科学基金法》的授权，NSF收集和传播关于科学和技术资源利用和活动的描述性经济统计数据以及其他相关信息。工业研究与开发调查收集的数据，与通过NSF其他统计和分析活动获得的数据结合使用时，为决策者提供了美国研发资金和绩效的概述。

9317747 Scarr This action provides for four separate tasks directed toward measuring and improving the quality of information generated by NSF's annual Survey of Research and Development in Industry. The tasks are: 1) Compensating for Nonresponse; 2) Evaluation of Quality; 3) Scope, Frame Construction, and Sample Design and; 4) Evaluation of Mail-out and Follow-up Materials. A fifth task, Effects of Implementing Survey Changes, is also funded under this action. Under authority granted by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, NSF collects and disseminates descriptive economic statistics, as well as other pertinent information, about scientific and technological resource utilization and activities. Data collected by the Survey of Research and Development in Industry, when used in combination with data obtained through other NSF statistical and analytical activities, provides policy makers with an overview of R&D funding and performance in the United States.