For example, report expenditures from branch campuses, medical schools, agricultural stations, research centers and institutes, and any other units whose expenditures are separately budgeted and are accounted for by your institution's financial system. Do not report salaries of faculty doing research at outside institutions unless your institution accounts for the funding of that research. The percentage of basic research should be defined at the individual grant level by each principal researcher. Where this is not possible, grants should be reviewed by each department head or other relevant research coordinator. Congress and Federal and State government planners use the data for science policy analysis, national and international studies, legislative hearing reports, budget formulation sessions, and other measurements of the adequacy of the Nation's research base.
Academic institutions use the information for policy analysis, publicity, and other purposes.
Industrial firms often request data to prepare for on-campus recruiting. The data often appear in higher education studies and publications. NSF also produces a smaller Selected Data report to disseminate the most recent data as soon as they are released. Survey data are now available through the World Wide Web on the Internet.