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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...

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...