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Useful Stats: NSF Releases State S&E Profiles
The National Science Foundation has published online the latest edition of the annual series: Science & Engineering State Profiles: 1998-99. By presenting one-page statistical summaries for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, Profiles provides rankings, state and US figures for easy reference across 30 science and engineering statistics as well as the distribution of federal R&D obligations by department and performer.
Additionally, the report includes population, per capita income, and workforce figures, permitting easy calculation of per capita statistics and rankings across the states. For example, SSTI has prepared the accompanying 50-state table presenting for comparison the number of patents issued to state residents in 1999, the average number of patents issued per member of the state’s civilian workforce, the average number of patents per doctoral scientists and doctoral engineers in the state, and the R&D dollars spent in the state per patent issued.
Profiles can be downloaded at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01317