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Pub No.	Click To View	Publication Title/Description	More Info
1.		Policy and the STEM Workforce System - This is the ninth in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
2.		Is U.S. Science and Technology Adrift? - This is the eighth in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
3.		Effects of Recent Revisions in Federal Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Categories on Counts of the Employment of STEM Professionals - This white paper, part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded STEM Workforce Data Project ...
4.		Improving Federal Statistics on the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce - This white paper, part of the STEM Workforce Data Project, recommends several ways for the federal statistics community to enhance the available data on STEM professionals.
5.		STEM Employment Forecasts and Distributions Among Employment Sectors - This is the seventh in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
6.		Four Decades of STEM Degrees, 1966-2004: "The Devil is in the Details" - This is the sixth in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
7.		A Half-Century Snapshot of the STEM Workforce, 1950 to 2000 - This white paper tracks the growth in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations from 1950 to 2000.
8.		Science and Technology Salaries: Trends and Details, 1995-2005 - This is the fifth in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
9.		Science Policy, the Science Workforce, and the Social Sciences: CPST 2005 Annual Meeting PowerPoint Presentations - The PowerPoint slides from CPST's December 1, 2005 Annual Meeting are presented in this document.
10.		The Foreign Born in Science and Technology - This is the fourth in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
11.		Sisyphus Revisited: Participation by Minorities in STEM Occupations, 1994-2004 - This is the third in a series of reports from the STEM Workforce Data Project.
12.		Preparing Women and Minorities for the IT Workforce: The Role of Nontraditional Educational Pathways - This study examines the role of nontraditional educational pathways in preparing women and underrepresented minorities for the information technology (IT) workforce.
13.		The Status of Native Americans in Science and Engineering - This report explores the tremendous growth of the Native American population in the 20th century, and looks at the progress this population has made in high school diploma and college degree attainment.
14.		The Changing Nature of Work and Workers in Science and Engineering - This document examines changes in recent years affecting the entry and exit points to science and engineering (S&E) careers.
15.		Women in Science and Technology: the Sisyphean Challenge of Change - This is the second in a series of reports associated with the STEM Workforce Data Project.
16.		Education and Employment in Science and Engineering: A Global Perspective - This document examines education and employment issues from a global perspective.
17.		Skills for the Innovation Economy: What the 21st Century Workforce Needs and How to Provide It - America is faced with an innovation imperative. Scientists and engineers have provided the ingenuity needed to produce America's robust system of innovation, but clouds are forming.
18.		Trends in Primary Financial Support for Science and Engineering Graduate Students by Race/Ethnicity, 1996 to 2002 - Graduate students tend to rely on multiple modes of financial support over the course of their doctoral studies ...
19.		Debt Burden of Science and Engineering Doctorates - Differences by Race/Ethnicity - Does the debt burden that S&E graduates incur in obtaining their degree differ by race/ethnicity?
20.		Twenty Years of Scientific and Technical Employment - This is the first of a series of reports associated with the STEM Workforce Data Project.
21.		The Outlook in 2003 for Information Technology Workers in the USA - The fifth in a series of reports known collectively as the IT Workforce Data Project.
22.		Research & Development Funding in Science and Engineering - The current state of R&D funding in science and engineering is examined in this document.
23.		Mapping Academic Disciplines to a Multi-Disciplinary World - Inter- and multi-disciplinary issues are explored in this report.
24.		"Walking the Talk" in Retention-to-Graduation: Institutional Production of Minority Engineers - A NACME Analysis - This national study measures institutional performance in retention-to-graduation of the baccalaureate engineering class of 2001.
25.		Trends in African American and Native American Participation in STEM Higher Education - This report examines the slowly increasing participation of African Americans and Native Americans in science, technology, engineering and mathematics higher education.
26.		The Science & Technology Labor Force in a Changing Market and Economy - This report includes 12 presentations examining science and technology workforce trends, the current labor market, the changing roles of demographic groups in the labor market, and pathways to responding to the changing labor force.
27.		What Does the Future of the Scientific Labor Market Look Like? - This report presents statistics outlining the changes in the U.S. scientific workforce over the past 20-30 years.
28.		Postdocs: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know - This document contains the proceedings of a December 4, 2002 NSF/CPST/Professional Societies Workshop.
29.		NSF Data Sources, Publications and Data Needs - This document contains the proceedings of an August 28, 2002 NSF/CPST/Professional Societies Workshop.
30.		H-1B Visas and Their Impact on the Science and Technology Workforce - This publication provides an overview of U.S. immigration and visa types, with particular emphasis on the H-1B visa and its impact on the science and technology workforce.