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    • Higher Education Research and Development 2021

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2024

    The Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities. The survey collects information on R&D expenditures by field of research and source of funds and also gathers information on types of research, expenses, and R&D personnel. The survey is an annual census of institutions that expended at least $150,000 in separately accounted for R&D in the fiscal year. This dataset includes HERD assets for 2021.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    This dataset is part of the following collection:

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 10, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NSF JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 10, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2024
    Publisher National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier NCSES-HERD2021
    Data First Published 2022-12-15
    Language English
    Data Last Modified 2023-02-07
    Category Research and Development
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 422:00:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id 2689e932-7d1f-4a00-90cb-b0252eddc5a2
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id dc830e60-8387-41bf-845e-0427b13235ce
    Harvest Source Id dd483763-d1b3-4694-85ac-dd9398643efc
    Harvest Source Title NSF JSON
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 422:006
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ed4dd1fc8d33066fd797a1d2973ecf1dca06127363891024de7e086ae673f296
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 1953/2021

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