The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) leads several cutting-edge research projects and initiatives that further our mission on collecting and disseminating objective information on the science and engineering enterprise.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) are collaborating on a research and development (R&D) satellite account that will expand R&D measures in the context of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and related national and state-level statistics.

These BEA statistics include R&D’s contribution to GDP (R&D value added) and associated R&D employment and compensation for the nation and all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To learn more about this project, please visit Ongoing Projects and Initiatives. To view the new statistics, please visit BEA’s website.

Data access and discovery continue to be popular topics of interest across the federal data ecosystem. As part of this dialogue, NCSES participated in a special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR), Democratizing Data: Discovering Data Use and Value for Research and Policy, which highlighted the findings, successes, and lessons learned from the Democratizing Data pilot study and explored the potential of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to build on these initial efforts. The pilot study seeks to understand how public data are being used in science, enabling the government to make more transparent, informed decisions about public investments.

The four agency heads who participated in the pilot study sat down for a fireside chat hosted by the former U.S. Chief Statistician, Nancy Potok, to shed light on the significance of understanding data use to inform decision making. To listen to the chat, please visit The View from Four Statistical Agencies. To read the paper co-authored by NCSES as part of the special HDSR issue, please visit Search for How Data Have Been Used: Intuitive Labels for Data Search and Discovery.

America’s Data Hub Consortium (ADC) has recently launched its Idea Bank and is seeking ideas! Stakeholder input may be used to inform future project solicitations and other activities that ADC will undertake, including those to inform a potential National Secure Data Service. Ideas submitted will be shared publicly, so they must be nonproprietary and non-attributional.

To submit an idea, please visit ADC’s Idea Bank and complete the form.