This project will provide information on scientist, engineer, and technician (SET) employment in industry. It will develop national estimates from the ongoing Occupational Employment Statistics Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) which provides annual information on employment in detailed occupations by industry. The OES survey is a Federal-State cooperative program in which State Employment Security Agencies collect data following BLS specifications. Data collection occurs on a three-year cycle, sequentially covering manufacturing, nonmanufacturing, and trade and regulated (communications, public utilities, and transportation) industries and colleges and universities. The OES data help NSF meet its mandate under the National Science Foundation Act to develop and maintain a data base of demographic, educational, and employment information on SET. The OES surveys are a key part of the system for developing such information. Thus, the survey data: a) help in developing an accurate profile of U. S. SET personnel; b) are used in studying supply of and demand for scientists, engineers, and technicians; c) are used to develop current estimates of SET employment in total and by detailed SET field and industry; and d) allow identification of SET growth fields, and those in decline or otherwise changing.
