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4. Enhancing the Utility of Human Resource Data
Pages 28-31

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... But there are limits including budget constraints and privacy protections that will shape choices among potential improvements in human resource data collection and analysis. Charlotte Kuh of the National Research Council staff commented that these choices deserved more systematic thought in light of the considerable cost of assembling large data sets and the constraints entailed in protecting the confidentiality of individually identifiable information.
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... EXPANDING CURRENTLY COLLECTED SURVEY DATA Several workshop participants perceived a need to derive more information on subjects of current surveys, particularly scientists and engineers working in industry: · More precise information on employers and their locations (as is available on academic scientists and engineers) would enable analysts to relate individual and firm characteristics.
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... FACILITATING LINKAGES BETWEEN DATA SETS Workshop participants generally agreed that more important advances in analysis of innovation would come from linking human resource data with other data sets. Paula Stephan cited the example of matching the name and location of respondents to the SDR and SED with Census establishment data providing detailed information on characteristics of the firms.
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... How much time is devoted to continuing education or simply keeping up with the research field? Time-use surveys, in which individuals are interviewed over a period of time or asked to maintain diaries, are an accepted way of addressing such questions and have been used in a variety of economic contexts such as to measure unpaid work as input for satellite accounts to national economic accounts and to help evaluate income and welfare policies (National Research Council, 2000a)
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