Assessing the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Division of the Science Resources Statistics

评估美国社区调查对 NSF 科学资源统计部门的好处

• 批准号: 0632055
• 负责人: Constance Citro
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0632055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; Benefits; American; Community; Survey

The Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council proposes toconduct a two-phase study for the National Science Foundation's Division of ScienceResources Statistics. The study will address the issues involved in using the AmericanCommunity Survey (ACS) to collect information necessary to improve understanding ofthe education and employment status of the science and engineering workforce. In thefirst phase, the committee will appoint a panel of approximately 8 experts to design andhold a workshop. The workshop will have the specific objective of identifying issues forthe collection of field of degree information on the ACS with regard to goals, content,methodology, data quality, and data products. The workshop will also review NSF'sassessment of the potential of the addition of this information as a screening element forsubsequent inquiries such as the National Survey of College Graduates, which now useslevel of degree information from the decennial census long form. In addition, theworkshop will consider the relevance and adequacy of ACS products for meeting currentand emerging data needs for NSF/SRS. Following the workshop, the panel willdeliberate to prepare an interim report with its recommendations and information fromthe workshop. The panel will remain in being through a second phase of activity, tofollow a planned test of collecting the recommended data on field of degree using aCensus Bureau methods test panel. When that activity is completed, the panel willreconvene to review the findings of the methods test panel and make finalrecommendations regarding the collection of this information on the ACS.

国家研究委员会的国家统计委员会建议为国家科学基金会的科学资源统计部门进行一项两阶段的研究。该研究将解决使用美国社区调查（ACS）收集必要信息的问题，以提高对科学和工程劳动力的教育和就业状况的了解。在第一阶段，委员会将任命一个由大约8名专家组成的小组来设计和举办一个研讨会。研讨会的具体目标是确定收集ACS学位领域信息的问题，包括目标、内容、方法、数据质量和数据产品。研讨会还将审查国家科学基金会对增加这些信息作为后续调查（如全国大学毕业生调查）筛选元素的潜力的评估，该调查现在使用十年一次的人口普查长表格中的学位信息水平。此外，研讨会将考虑ACS产品的相关性和充分性，以满足NSF/SRS当前和新出现的数据需求。讲习班结束后，小组将审议准备一份临时报告，其中包括讲习班的建议和信息。该小组将继续进行第二阶段的活动，以遵循使用人口普查局方法收集学位领域推荐数据的计划测试。当该活动完成后，该小组将再次召开会议，审查方法测试小组的调查结果，并就收集ACS的这些信息提出最终建议。