Using the American Community Survey for the National Science by Panel to Assess the Benefits of the American Community

Using the American Community Survey for the National Science by Panel to Assess the Benefits of the American Community

By Panel to Assess the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council

The nationwide technology origin (NSF) has lengthy accrued details at the quantity and features of people with schooling or employment in technology and engineering and comparable fields within the usa. a big motivation for this attempt is to meet a congressional mandate to watch the prestige of girls and minorities within the technological know-how and engineering crew. for this reason, many facts are calculated by way of race or ethnicity, gender, and incapacity prestige. For greater than 25 years, NSF received a pattern body for selecting the objective inhabitants for info it accumulated from the checklist of respondents to the decennial census long-form who indicated they had earned a bachelors or larger degree.The likelihood that a person was once sampled from this record was once depending on either demographic and employment features. yet, the resource for the pattern body will now not be to be had as the census long-form is being changed as of the 2010 census with the continual choice of specific demographic and different info within the new American neighborhood Survey (ACS). on the request of NSF's technology assets facts department, the Committee on nationwide facts of the nationwide learn Council shaped a panel to behavior a workshop and examine the problems occupied with changing the decennial census long-form pattern with a pattern from the ACS to function the body for the knowledge the NSF gathers. The workshop had the categorical goal of picking out matters for the gathering of box of measure details at the ACS with reference to pursuits, content material, statistical technique, information caliber, and information items.

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SOURCE: National Science Foundation (2007, p. 8). S. institutions in S&E fields from the National Survey of Recent College Graduates (NSRCG) and the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) inevitably means that some population groups were missed. One population that is of great interest are the scientists and engineers whose degrees were all earned abroad. This population is captured in the sample only once a decade in the baseline survey. Foreign-educated scientists and engineers entering the United States after the decennial census and receiving no further degrees in the United States are not included in any SESTAT survey, so the undercoverage of this group grows throughout a decade.

Within the new taxonomy, the S&E definition and coverage did not change. The previous non-S&E group was split into two components— S&E related and non-S&E related. For the NSCG, there was no change in follow-up plans with regard to the non-S&E cases. The S&E-related group was created to allow for better coverage of the degrees and occupations in this group. The S&E-related group included the specified degrees and occupations: the degrees covered were those in health sciences, science and mathematics teacher education, and technology and technical fields; the occupations covered were health scientists, secondary teachers of science and mathematics, S&E managers, and technicians and technologists in science and engineering.

For example, it would be possible for NSF to draw the sample from a list of ACS respondents using criteria similar to those used in past NSCG surveys. That approach will be facilitated by the fact that the ACS now collects information that is essentially identical to that collected on the long form—the highest degree or level of school that the respondent has completed, occupational and employment characteristics, and demographic characteristics. However, some things will need to change. The ACS surveys a smaller number of households in a given year than were surveyed by the long form.

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