Federal Science Expenditures and Personnel, Activities in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences
Socio-economic objectives of institutional unit, category
Socio-economic objectives refers to allow departments to classify their Sciences and technology resource allocations according to the purpose for which the expenditure is intended.
Institutional unit refers to an economic entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities, and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities. There is a hierarchical relationship between institutional units and establishments. An institutional unit contains one or more entire establishment(s); an establishment belongs to one and only one institutional unit. There are two main types of units in the real world that may qualify as institutional units, namely persons or groups of persons in the form of households, and legal or social entities.
The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:
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