Clarification Questions for 3145-0101, Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities

This questionnaire will be sent to 200 participants of the NSF FY 2011 Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities.

The questionnaire will be presented in a Web form

Sites for question 1 will be populated for individual institutions based on their associated campuses as identified in NSF’s Taxonomy of Institutional Names.

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NSF is trying to understand how survey respondents report about research space at their various campuses, branches and other entities in the Science and Engineering Research Facilities Survey. This will help us determine whether we need to clarify for institutions what entities to include when reporting research space. 

Please answer the following questions based on your institution’s submission of Part 1 of the FY 2011 Facilities Survey earlier this year.

1. Our records show that the entities in the following list may be part of your institution. For your FY2011 Facilities Survey, did you consider each of the following as part of your institution?

	Yes, considered as part of our institution	No, not considered as part of our institution	Don’t know/Not sure
Site A
Site B
Site C

2. Please list any other entities that you considered as part of your institution for your FY2011 Facilities Survey (not listed above in Question 1).

Site D

Site E

Site F

For the web survey, show Question 3 as the follow-up question with any of the A – C entities that were marked as “Yes” responses in Question 1 and all D - F entities collected in Question 2. (B, C, and E are examples below)

3. For each entity listed below please indicate whether you reported research space for it in the FY 2011 Facilities Survey submitted for your institution.

	Yes, reported research space	No, did not report research space	Don’t know/Not sure
Site B
Site C
Site E

For the web survey, show Question 4 as the follow-up question with any of the A – F entities that were marked as “No” responses in Question 3. (C and E are examples below)

4. For each of the following entities, why did you exclude it from your institution’s FY 2011 Facilities Survey?

	No research space for this entity	Don’t know/Not sure	Other reason: please specify
Site C
Site E

*Test comprehension of these alternatives with the participants in the small pre-test. If there is inconsistent comprehension across participants, explore other options with them and then substitute a word that does have a consistent meaning across participants.

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