Synopsis
The Analysis Infrastructure within the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program (RISBS) helps initiatives that create computational instruments and knowledge to facilitate primary analysis within the social and behavioral sciences that may result in improved well being, prosperity and safety.
Tasks needs to be aimed toward creating computational instruments and knowledge to allow analysis by social scientists. Examples embody, however aren’t restricted to, knowledge assortment or meeting efforts that lead to new assets for a neighborhood of researchers or software program platforms that facilitate knowledge assortment efforts by others. RISBS doesn’t assist analysis by PIs besides in service of creation of the infrastructure. Innovation is particularly inspired.
RISBS straight helps three key longitudinal surveys and panel research that present researchers with knowledge on how American society features and modifications over time (and in 2010 had been acknowledged as among the many 60 most vital “discoveries or advances that… have had a big influence or affect on each American’s life… name[ed] the ‘Sensational 60’, in honor of NSF’s sixtieth anniversary”):
The American Nationwide Election Examine, which began in 1948 and has been funded by NSF since 1977, offers “gold normal” knowledge on voting, public opinion, and political participation in U.S. nationwide elections.
The Common Social Survey, a nationally consultant interview survey of the U.S. grownup inhabitants, collects knowledge on a variety of subjects and has been funded by NSF since its inception in 1972.
The Panel Examine of Earnings Dynamics, a longitudinal survey of a nationally consultant pattern of U.S. households begun in 1968 (with NSF taking up most of its funding in 1980) collects knowledge on a wide selection of financial, social and well being components.
The RISBS program administers separate solicitations for the American Nationwide Election Examine (ANES), the Common Social Survey (GSS) and the Panel Examine of Earnings Dynamics (PSID). These solicitations have particular necessities and submission deadlines. Different infrastructure proposals could also be submitted on to the RISBS program at any time or transferred from different SBE packages following the respective program’s submission tips. RISBS additionally collaborates with different packages within the social and behavioral sciences by way of a co-funding course of to assist initiatives that create particularly useful instruments for researchers in these fields or are furthering improvements in analysis infrastructure.
Potential PIs might also have an interest within the Human Networks and Information Science Program — Infrastructure (HNDS-I), which helps proposals addressing the event of information assets and related analytic methods that assist analysis within the social, behavioral and financial sciences. Potential PIs are strongly inspired to contact the RISBS program officers and/or program officers from different SBE packages which may be relevant to the proposal earlier than submitting to RISBS and to discuss with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) insurance policies on duplicate or considerably comparable proposals.
