Author: Committee on National Statistics

From April 25-26, 2023 the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to...

Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings abo...

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineerin...

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...

The aging population of the United States has significant implications for the workforce - challenging what it means to work and to retire in the U...

In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day public workshop on Principles and Practices for Fed...

Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, be...

Planning for the 2020 census is already beginning. This book from the National Research Council examines several aspects of census planning, includ...

As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students ...

Although people in the United States have historically been reasonably supportive of federal censuses and surveys, they are increasingly unavailabl...

Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechanism for improving people's well-being in other way...

The American Community Survey (ACS) was conceptualized as a replacement to the census long form, which collected detailed population and housing da...

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation is responsible for national reporting of the rese...

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subje...

The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, c...

Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with ins...

In the U.S. criminal justice system in 2014, an estimated 2.2 million people were in incarcerated or under correctional supervision on any given da...

Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic...

In 2014, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) engaged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a pla...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - often called The Nation's Report Card - is the largest nationally representative and conti...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...

Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decades...

Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to ra...