This survey is conducted through a full population survey every five years and sample surveys during the intervening four years. All institutions in the certainty stratum are surveyed every year. Only 25 percent of institutions in the probability stratum are surveyed during sample surveys. A complete description of the certainty stratum categories is available in the Methodology Report. This includes all research equipment purchased under sponsored research project awards from current fund accounts.
Current funds are expenditures of funds available for current operations.
Such expenditures include all unrestricted gifts and restricted current funds to the extent that such funds were expended for current operating purposes. Included are expenditures for research equipment purchased under research project awards from current fund accounts. Also included are research funds for which an outside organization, educational or other, is a subrecipient. Excluded are training grants, public service grants, demonstration grants, and departmental research expenditures that are not separately budgeted. Current funds are expenditures of funds available for current operations.