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Opportunity Summary:

This National Science Foundation opportunity, administered through the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), supported research that strengthens the nation s ability to measure, analyze, and communicate what is happening across the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. NCSES is one of the federal government s principal statistical agencies, and its core role is to collect and disseminate objective statistics on science, engineering, and related activities in the United States and internationally. The data NCSES produces feeds major national reference reports used by policymakers, researchers, and the public, including the National Science Board s biennial Science and Engineering Indicators and the recurring Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.

The main purpose of the program was to expand analytic and methodological work connected to NCSES surveys and datasets. In practical terms, NCSES was looking for proposals that either make deeper research use of NCSES data or improve how NCSES gathers and interprets that data in the first place. That includes projects that develop better survey methods, enhance measurement approaches, create or refine indicators that describe science and technology activities and resources, and advance statistical techniques for analyzing and disseminating science and technology data. A second emphasis was education and training: NCSES wanted to encourage efforts that help researchers learn to work effectively with large scale, nationally representative datasets, which often involve complex sampling designs, weighting, confidentiality constraints, and specialized analytic approaches.

The opportunity invited a broad range of project types rather than limiting applicants to a single research format. NCSES encouraged submissions for individual or multi investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research, and projects focused on data collection, data dissemination, or related statistical infrastructure. This scope signals that the program was not only about producing findings on science and technology trends, but also about building better measurement systems and a stronger research community capable of using official statistics responsibly and creatively.

Administratively, the award mechanism was a discretionary NSF grant under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category. The CFDA listing was 47.075 within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences portfolio. The program anticipated about 12 awards with an estimated total funding level of 750,000, and it did not require cost sharing or matching. Eligibility was described as unrestricted, meaning it was open to any type of applicant entity, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications in the full program text.

Timing details reflect that this is an older, now closed competition. The initial posting date was March 12, 2012, with an original closing date of June 6, 2012. Additional proposal deadlines were listed for January 15, 2013 and then January 15 annually thereafter, but the opportunity was ultimately archived on December 17, 2014. The program reference for the full solicitation was NSF Publication 12 545, and support contacts were routed through NSF s grants.gov assistance channel for access and linking issues.

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