Instruction guide for filling out National Science Foundation surveys (NSF Forms 883 and 884) of research in government, universities, colleges and other nonprofit industries. This guide does not contain any actual statistics or results of research.

This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying gaps and weaknesses and areas of missing coverage. The report takes an in-depth look at the definition of R&D, the needs and potential uses of NSF's R&D data by a variety of users, the goals of an integrated system of surveys and other data collection activities, and the quality of the data collected in the existing Science Resources Statistics surveys.