Author: Committee on National Statistics

Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) - through its National Center for Science and Engineering ...

A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD...

Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. I...

The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in t...

People's bonds, associations and networks - as well as the civil, political, and institutional characteristics of the society in which they live - ...

The National Science Foundation developed the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program (SciSIP) in 2006 to fund basic and applied research ...

Subjective well-being refers to how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives. This information...

It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, howev...

This proceedings summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File, held...

An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess t...

Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-s...

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but ...

The decennial census is foundational to the functioning of American democracy, and maintaining the public's trust in the census and its resulting d...

On May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of ...

The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many ...

For many household surveys in the United States, responses rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for securing and managing the nation's borders. Over the past decade, DHS has dramati...

The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes in the United...

During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies...

In 1982 the Census Bureau requested the Committee on National Statistics to establish a panel to suggest research and experiments, to recommend imp...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, p...

In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abus...

In 2014 the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a series of For...