Overview
These time series data for public and private funding
of agricultural research and development cover the years
1970-98 (private) and 1970-2001 (public). Data are available
either as nominal figures or corrected for inflation.
Public numbers are based on data from two sources. Federal
data are from the National Science Foundation's
Federal Funds for Research and Development
series. Table 7 from the series presents Federal obligations
for research and development, by agency. To prevent the
double counting of money given to the states, funds for
the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension
Service were not included in the Federal total. The State-level
data were taken from the Current
Research Information Systems' "Inventory of Agricultural
Research" publications, prior to 1993. CRIS stopped
publishing the Inventory in 1997, and moved to a web-based
reporting system that can be found on the CRIS home page.
While the public numbers are from two different sources,
each is a consistent series over the length of time that
is needed to create this series.
Private numbers and the research deflator are constructed
by ERS, based on the methodology presented in "Private-Sector
Agricultural Research Expenditures in the United States,
1960-92" (Staff Paper AGES9525).
Feature
Various uses of R&D data and interpretation of trends
are described in Agricultural
Research and Development: Public and Private Investments
Under Alternative Markets and Institutions.
Data Files
A table describing the agricultural research funding
in the public and private sector database is provided as an Excel
spreadsheet.
Glossary
Get more detailed definitions
on public and private research and development terms used
in this database.
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