According to the National Science Foundation, SDR is the only source of U.S. data on the careers of science, engineering, and health doctoral degree holders. Completing the survey is an easy, convenient way to give back to your educational community and to the public interest.

• Data from SDR help government, business, academic, and industrial leaders to forecast labor demand and supply in many fields-your participation increases the accuracy of these data.
• College students use information from SDR to help make decisions about graduate study and about careers-your participation makes the data more useful to these students.
• Educational institutions use data from SDR to establish and modify scientific or technical curricula-your participation helps these institutions make better decisions.
• Many U.S. government agencies use data from SDR to get an overall sense of scientific, engineering, and health resources, and then formulate science and engineering policies in view of these resources-your participation increases the accuracy of the data on which these policy decisions are made.
• Private industry uses SDR data to understand employment and salary trends and to develop recruitment strategies and benefits packages that are effective-your participation helps industry leaders better understand the scientific and technical workplace.

NSF Reports to the United States Congress

• Science & Engineering Indicators 2010
• Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering (2009)

Other NSF publications

• Characteristics of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers (every 2 years)
• Doctoral Scientists and Engineers: Profile (every 2 years)
• Science and Engineering State Profiles (every year)
• Postdoc Participation of Science, Engineering and Health Doctorate Recipients (March 2008)
• Why Did They Come To The United States? A Profile of Immigrant Scientists and Engineers (June 2007)
• All In A Weeks Work: Average Work Weeks Of Doctoral Scientists And Engineers (December 2005)
• Employment Sector, Salaries, Publishing, and Patenting Activities of S&E Doctorate Holders (June 2004)
• Gender Differences in the Careers of Academic Scientists and Engineers (June 2004)

Presentations and Research Using SDR Data - Selected Non-NSF Examples

• Freeman, R., & Goroff, D. (2009). Science and Engineering Careers in the United States: An Analysis of Markets and Employment, University of Chicago Press.
• Prasad, S. (2009). Task assignments and incentives: Generalists vs. specialists. RAND Journal of Economics, 40(2), 380-403.
• Bound, J., Turner, S., & Walsh, P. (2009, March). Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education, National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Wolfinger, N. H., Mason, M. A., & Goulden, M. (2008). Problems in the pipeline: Gender, marriage, and fertility in the ivory tower. Journal of Higher Education, 79(4), 388-405.
• Corley, E. & Sabharwal, M. (2007). Foreign-born academic scientists and engineers: Producing more and getting less than their U.S.-born peers? Research in Higher Education, 48(8), 909-940.
• Stephan, P. E., Gurmu, S., Sumell, A. J., & Black, G. (2007). Who's patenting in the university? Evidence from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 16(2), 71-99.
• Stephan, P. (2007, February). Early Careers for Biomedical Scientists: Doubling (and Troubling) Outcomes, NBER Science and Engineering Workforce Project.
• Yamagata, H. (2006, May). Retirement Behaviors of Physicians Based on the Physicians Over 50 Survey Preliminary Findings, 2006 AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference.
• Ward, W. (2005, July). The Success of Female Scientists in the 21st Century, Joint OECD-French Government International Workshop on Women in Scientific Careers: Unleashing the Potential, Paris, France.
• Seward, L., Herrmann, A., & Hoffer, T. (2005, May). A Brain is a Terrible Thing to Lose: Locating U.S.-Educated Foreign Nationals Intending to Live Abroad, 2005 American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference.
• Root-Robbins, L. (2005, March). Gender Equity in Higher Education: What the President of Harvard Doesnt Know or How Molehills Become Mountains of Inequity, University of Wisconsin Women's Studies.
• Levin, S. G., Black, G. C., Winkler, A. E., & Stephan, P. E. (2003). The Changing Career Outcomes of Scientists and Engineers in Academe: The Role of Immigrants, National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Carlson, L. T., Lehming, R., & Regets, M. (2003). Workforce for the 21st Century, Workshop for Fostering the Development of Human Resources for Science and Technology, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Mason, M. and Goulden, M. (2002). Do Babies Matter? Using the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to Explore the Role of Family in the Careers of Academic Women and Men. Association for Institutional Research Forum.
• Fennell, K. (2002). Where are the New Psychologists Going? Employment, Debt, and Salary Data. American Psychological Association.
• Long, J., & Scott, E. (2001). From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, National Research Council.