| Cost component
| Source data for cost
component
| 1987 (billions of dollars)
| Method and source data
|
| R&D expenditures | | 127.39 | Sum of detail
|
| Industry | | 93.25 | Sum of detail |
 Compensation
of employees | NSF reported
distribution of wages of R&D personnel by industry | 38.32 | Sum of detail
|
| Scientists
and engineers | Based on a 1975
split | 24.43 | Deflation: Proxy prices by industry—annual
professional income of engineers from the Engineering Manpower Commission. |
| Support
staff | Based on a 1975 split | 13.89 | Deflation: Proxy prices by industry—indexes
of average hourly earnings of production workers.
|
| Materials
and supplies | NSF reported
distribution of costs of materials and supplies by industry | 16.73 | Deflation: Proxy prices—PPI for
industrial commodities less fuel. |
| Overhead
less CFC | NSF reported
distribution of other costs by industry less BEA estimate of depreciation | 33.25 | Deflation: Proxy prices—median
weekly salaries of managers and administrators.
|
| CFC
for structures and equipment | Based
on 1958 NSF reported distribution of depreciation and on 1982 depreciation
charges of R&D auxiliaries from the Bureau of the Census 1982 Enterprise
Statistics | 4.94 | Deflation: Proxy prices—a
composite of IPD's for private purchases of new industrial nonresidential
structures and producers' durable equipment. |
| Private universities and colleges | | 4.21 | Sum of detail
|
| Compensation
of employees | Derived from sample
of individual schools: Based on direct costs less materials and supplies | 1.86 | Deflation: Proxy prices by school (from
a sample of private universities and medical schools representing 90 percent of
R&D expenditures)— fixed weighted price indexes for academic personnel
costs (salaries and fringe benefits) from the NIH BRDPI. |
| Materials
and supplies | Weight from NIH
BRDPI | .73 | Deflation: Proxy prices—fixed
weighted price index from academic nonpersonnel costs from the NIH BRDPI.
|
| Overhead
less CFC | R&D expenditures
less direct costs | 1.28 | Deflation: Proxy prices by school (from
a sample of private universities and medical schools representing 90 percent of
R&D expenditures)— product of the price index of direct costs and an
index of the indirect cost rate. |
| CFC
for structures | Expenditures for
R&D structures | .17 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services structures.
|
| CFC
for equipment | Expenditures for R&D
capital equipment and reclassification of research equipment from current
expense to investment | .17 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services equipment. |
| FFRDC's administered by private universities
and colleges | Weight of
expenditures based on R&D obligations to individual FFRDC's from four agency
categories | 2.38 | Sum of detail
|
| DOD
funded | | .44 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for DOD purchases of R&D. |
| DOE
funded | | .75 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for DOE purchases of R&D.; |
| NASA
funded | | .82 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for NASA purchases of R&D. |
| All
other funded | | .13 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal other nondefense purchases of R&D.; |
| CFC
for structures | Expenditures for
R&D structures | .15 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services structures. |
| CFC
for equipment | Expenditures for R&D
capital equipment and the reclassification of research equipment from current
expense to investment | .09 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services equipment.
|
| FFRDC's administered by other
nonprofit institutions | Weight of
expenditures based on R&D obligations to FFRDC's administered by nonprofit
institutions divided into four agency categories | .59 | Sum of detail |
| DOD
funded | | .47 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for DOD purchases of R&D price.
|
| DOE
funded | | .11 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for DOE purchases of R&D. |
| NASA
funded | | <.01 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for NASA purchases of R&D.; |
| All
other funded | | .02 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal other purchases of R&D. |
| Other nonprofit institutions | R&D expenditures | 2.90 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA index
for noncommercial R&D.; |
| Federal |
| 13.33 | Sum of detail |
| Compensation
of employees | Federal obligations
for intramural R&D personnel costs divided into four agency categories | 4.94 | Sum of detail
|
| DOD |
| 2.38 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal defense compensation of civilian employees. |
| All
other agencies | | 2.55 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal nondefense compensation of employees.
|
| Materials
and supplies and overhead excluding CFC | Expenditures excluding compensation of
employees and OMB budget based estimates of equipment | 6.06 | Sum of detail |
| DOD |
| 4.11 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal installation support services.
|
| DOE |
| .07 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal weapons support services. |
| All
other agencies | | 1.88 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal nondefense services excluding compensation of employees.
|
| CFC
for structures | Federal
obligations for intramural R&D plant and judgment split between structures
and large equipment | .67 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal nondefense industrial building, less force account construction. |
| CFC
for equipment | OMB budget detail
on equipment, Federal obligations for intramural R&D plant, and judgment | 1.68 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal nondefense durable goods.
|
| State and local | | .71 | Sum of detail |
| Compensation
of employees, materials and supplies, and overhead excluding CFC | R&D expenditures excluding
expenditures on plant | .61 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA price
index for noncommercial R&D.; |
| CFC
for structures | State and local
expenditures on R&D plant and judgmental split between structures and large
equipment | .03 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for State and local structures new construction put-in-place, other buildings. |
| CFC
for equipment | State and local
expenditures on R&D plant and judgmental split between structures and large
equipment | .07 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for State and local new equipment.
|
| Public universities and colleges | | 8.02 | Sum of detail |
| Compensation
of employees | Derived from sample
of individual schools: Based on direct costs less materials and supplies | 4.18 | Deflation: Proxy prices by school (from
a sample of public universities and medical schools representing 80 percent of R&D
expenditures)—Fixed weighted price indexes for academic personnel costs
(salaries and fringe benefits) from the NIH BRDPI.
|
| Materials
and supplies | Weight from NIH
BRDPI | 1.40 | Deflation: Proxy prices—Fixed
weighted price index for academic nonpersonnel costs from the NIH BRDPI. |
| Overhead
excluding CFC | R&D
expenditures less compensation of employees, materials and supplies, and
research equipment | 1.84 | Deflation: Proxy prices by school (from
a sample of public universities and medical schools representing 80 percent of R&D
expenditures)—Product of the price index of direct costs and an index of
the indirect cost rate.
|
| CFC
for structures | Expenditures for
R&D structures | .30 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services structures. |
| CFC
for equipment | Expenditures for R&D
capital equipment and the reclassification of research equipment from current
expense to investment | .30 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA
educational services equipment IPD.
|
| FFRDC's administered by public
universities and colleges | Weight
of expenditures excluding CFC based on R&D obligations to individual FFRDC's
from four agency categories | 1.99 |
Sum of detail |
| DOD
funded | | .46 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for DOD purchases of R&D.; |
| DOE
funded | | 1.32 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for DOE purchases of R&D. |
| NASA
funded | | <.01 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for NASA purchases of R&D.; |
| All
other funded | | .03 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for Federal other nondefense purchases of R&D. |
| CFC
for structures | Expenditures for
R&D structures | .09 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services structures.
|
| CFC
for equipment | Expenditures for R&D
capital equipment and reclassification of research equipment from current
expense to investment | .09 | Deflation: Proxy prices—NIPA IPD
for educational services equipment. |
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
OMB U.S. Office of Management and Budget
