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Appendix: Note on Sources of Data
Appendix: Note on Sources of Data
Pages 93-98
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For the subsequent fiscal year (FY 2001 in the case of the latest survey reported) , the estimates reflect probable administration budget request levels, which frequently differ from actual appropriations.
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In this report, the current dollar expenditure data from the Federal Funds Survey are converted to constant 1999 dollars, using the official deflators issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 2001.i Subfields of the social sciences and psychology are not considered in this report because of the high proportion of research in both major fields reported as "n.e.c." "Engineering, n.e.c.," called other engineering in this report is included in the analysis because it encompasses a series of discrete fields (e.g.
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Survey questionnaires are Reporting on a workshop requested by the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress concluded: There is general agreement among the workshop participants that the source of the discrepancy is a result of a charging research environment such as more cooperative research ventures under which a significant fraction of the funds received by universities Carl be counted twice. As funds get transferred between different academic institutions involved in joint research efforts or between different parts of the same institution, tracking the funds becomes more difficult and can lead to double counting....The (federal)
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The Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992, which allowed Chinese students in the U.S. at the time of the Tianamen Massacre to become permanent residents, generated a dramatic shift in Chinese Ph.D.' s away from temporary to permanent visa status.
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97 COMPUSTAT R&D DATABASE An alternative source of industrial spending data is the the Standard and Poor's Compustat database, which contains information required to be reported annually to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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