Response Evauation of the Survey of Industrial Research and Development

该项目将使人口普查局能够对国家科学基金会年度工业研究和发展调查的大约100名答复者进行答复评估。人口普查局建议采访完成年度调查问卷的行业官员，以便公司的数据能够更完整和一致地报告。此外，该项目获得的信息将使NSF能够评估当前的调查工具并改进其及其说明。因此，今后各公司对调查的答复应更加完整和一致。这项调查是NSF衡量工业界科技活动的一个重要组成部分，它收集了有关研究和开发的资金数额、资金来源、研究和开发科学家和工程师的就业情况以及工业业绩的其他经济特征的数据。调查数据为决策者提供了工业研究和开发支出以及就业方面的广泛统计信息。因此，基金会希望通过这一答复评价，保持调查中收集和制成表格的数据的高质量。

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.