The Funding of Social Knowledge Production and Application A Survey of Federal Agencies (1978) / Chapter Skim
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'THE SCOPE OF THE FEDERAL INVESTMENT'
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While research accounts for more than one-third of the total funds, it does not dominate knowledge production and application obligations as one might expect from the emphasis that research activities have traditionally received in reports on the social sciences. By enlarging the knowledge production framework to include activities other than research -- one type of demonstration, program evaluation, and general purpose statistics -- the total for knowledge production becomes $1.2 billion, or 67 percent of the fiscal 1977 social knowledge production and application total -- almost double the research total.
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Funds for demonstrations were almost equally divided between policy formulation demonstrations (knowledge production) and policy implementation demonstrations (knowledge application)
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2, Federal Funding for Education Knowledge Production and Utilization: KPU Function, by Agency Technical Report No. 3.1975 Federal Funding for Education Knowledge Production and Utilization: Project Content and Performer, by Agency The data presented in the first two studies are based on the Study Project survey, but the National Institute of Education recombined several categories to develop a knowledge production and utilization framework.
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(8.6) Income security and 98.5 112.4 109.4 social services (6.0)
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The increase in transportation is accounted for by an increase in the social knowledge production and application activities of the Department of Transportation. MAJOR AGENCY FUNDERS OF SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION Table 3-3, which presents the ranking of cabinet departments and independent agencies by their fiscal 1977 obligations, provides a sense of the degree of concentration of social knowledge production and application.
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Federal Energy Administration' 717.9 285.7 129.6 128.8 109.8 70.8 68.4 60.9 29.6 29.0 25.9 13.3 99.9 21.7 16.4 12.8 12.4 11.5 10.1 8.2 5.8 5.3 "The Department of Energy was not surveyed by the Study Project. Figure represents the social knowledge production and application obligations of the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Federal Energy Administration, and the Federal Power Commission.
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National Science Independent 99.9 Research Foundation agency 4. National Institute HEW 95 J» Research/ of Education demonstrations S
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Table 3-6, which presents aggregate totals by agency goal or audience, shows the dominance of "third parties" as the major audience of federal social knowledge production and application activities. Over 50 percent of the government's social knowledge production and application obligations is aimed at nonfederal users -- third parties, such as state and local government officials, school administrators, teachers, social workers, police officers, etc.
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Social Knowledge Production and Agency Goal or Audience Application Obligations Improvement of federal programs Improvement of federal policies Provision of knowledge for third parties Advancement of knowledge Collection and analysis of statistical data TOTAL 267.4 191.1 964.8 210.7 254.8 1.888.8 14.1 10.1 51.1 11.1 13.5 99.9
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