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Welcome to the Industrial Research and Development Information System (IRIS). The Survey of Industry Research and Development is the primary source of information on Research and Development (R&D;) performed by industries within the United States. The results of the survey are used to assess trends in R&D; expenditures. Government agencies, corporations, and research organizations use the data to determine productivity factors, formulate tax policy, and compare individual company performance with industry averages. IRIS contains only pre-SIC and SIC code data. Beginning with the 1999 survey, estimates are based on the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS). Access the NAICS tables.

Browse Tables by Survey Year You can select the specific statistical tables you want by browsing lists of all the published tables organized by survey year and survey publication title. Clicking on a publication entry will take you to a complete list of statistical tables derived from that year's survey. Clicking on an individual table in that list will let you obtain that table in Excel spreadsheet format. Begin Browsing.

Browse Tables by Table Topic You can select statistical tables on a given topic by selecting from a list of major topics. Clicking on a topic entry will take you to a list of statistical tables that cover that topic across all available data years. Clicking on an individual table in that list will let you obtain that table in Excel spreadsheet format. Begin Browsing.

Search Tables You can build a search query by selecting specific measures and/or dimensions and years of interest. Download your results as Microsoft (MS) Excel spreadsheets. Get the MS Excel Viewer if you don't have MS Excel. Start Search.

What kinds of data are available on this Web site?
This searchable database contains all tables produced from published R&D surveys from 1953 through 1998. These tables include statistics for selected periods on such measures as industry R&D funding and industry R&D personnel. These statistics are broken out by such dimensions as source, industrial sector, character of work, and company size.

 

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