Tuesday, April 28, 2009

[IWS] NSF: DATABASES & MICRODATA (on Scientists, Engineers, Industrial Research +) [updated 21 April 2009]

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National Science Foundation (NSF)

Databases and Microdata [updated 21 April 2009]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/database.cfm


WebCASPAR (Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System)
http://webcaspar.nsf.gov/

WebCASPAR is a database system containing information about academic science and engineering resources and is newly available on the World Wide Web. Included in the database is information from several of SRS's academic surveys plus information from a variety of other sources, including the < http://www.ed.gov/NCES/> National Center for Education Statistics. The system is designed to provide multiyear information about individual fields of S&E at individual academic institutions. The system provides the user with opportunities to select variables of interest and to specify whether and how information should be aggregated. Information can be output in hard copy form or in Lotus, Excel or SAS formats for additional manipulation by the researcher.


IRIS (Industrial Research and Development Information System)
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/iris/

IRIS links an online interface to a historical database with more than 2,500 statistical tables containing all industrial research and development (R&D) data published by NSF from 1953 through 1998. These tables are drawn from the results of NSF's annual Survey of Industrial Research and Development, the primary source for national-level data on U.S. industrial R&D.

IRIS resembles a databank more than a traditional database system. Rather than firm-specific microdata, it contains the most comprehensive collection of historical national industrial R&D statistics currently available. The tables in the database are in Excel spreadsheet format which are easily accessible either by defining various measures (e.g., total R&D) and dimensions (e.g., size of company) of specific research topics or by querying the report in which the tables were first published.

SESTAT (Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System)
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/sestat/

SESTAT is a comprehensive and integrated system of information about the employment, educational and demographic characteristics of scientists and engineers in the United States and is intended for both policy analysis and general research, having features for both the casual and more intensive data user.

SESTAT currently contains data from three NSF-sponsored demographic surveys, including 1999 survey responses from about 100,000 individuals. The NSF surveys provide compatible data which have been merged into a single integrated data system. These samples represent statistically about 13 million persons with science and engineering degrees. For additional information about the SESTAT system and the data it contains see < http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf99337/> "SESTAT: A Tool for Studying Scientists and Engineers in the United States" (NSF 99-337).


Microdata Files
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/database.cfm#MICRODATA
and
Data Licensing
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/database.cfm#licensing

AND MORE....

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