All research dollars reported for your institution should be funds that areseparately budgeted for research purposes. Do not include funds notspecifically budgeted for research. If your institution does not trackunderrecovery of indirect costs, use the underrecovery formula included in thequestionnaire instructions. Do not forget to include and distribute thesefunds by detailed field in survey item 2. Congress and Federal and State government planners use the data for sciencepolicy analysis, national and international studies, legislative hearingreports, budget formulation sessions, and other measurements of the adequacy ofthe Nation's research base.
Academic institutions use the information forpolicy analysis, publicity, and other purposes.
Industrial firms often requestdata to prepare for on-campus recruiting. The data often appear in highereducation studies and publications. NSFalso produces a smaller Selected Data report to disseminate the most recentdata as soon as they are released. Single-year and multiyear data tapes are also available.