A Vision and Roadmap for Education Statistics (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Census Bureau, peer reviewers can come from other units within the agency. In the panel's opinion, NCES and IES would benefit from a careful consideration of ways to match the review process to the product, focusing on the desired outcomes of review (e.g., timely, relevant, high quality)
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were moved to NCES from the Office 1 IES document provided to the panel, "Reorganization within the Institute of Education Sciences." 105
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39. 3 The statistics units count includes the Administrative Data Division, Sample Surveys Division and its predecessors, Statistical Standards and Data Confidentiality Staff, Annual Reports and Information Staff, and the Office of the Commissioner.
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to the U.S. Census Bureau for the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program.4 Currently, there is no reimbursable arrange 4 NCES response to question from the panel, p.
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Of the 90 total FTEs that NCES currently employs, 32 are organized into assessment units and the remaining 58 are organized in statistics units.9 A full examination of how NCES staff work across projects, divisions, and functions would require fact finding that is beyond the scope of this report. 5 NCES provided additional context for why there is no reimbursable aspect to EDFacts: "EDFacts is one of ED's major information technology investments.
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. For example, staff who work primarily on international studies are organized in assessment units, while the program dollars for the international studies collections have always come from the statistics budget appropriation.
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The Administrative Data Division was added as part of the statistics units by FY 2015. Today, the statistics units include all subunits except for the Office of the Commissioner and the Assessments Division (see Appendix D, Table D-2)
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Figure 5-3 compares all 13 federal statistical agencies on the average number of U.S. dollars managed by each employee, based on the total number of employees in FY 2020.
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This is the average number of dollars calculated as direct funding in FY 2020 divided by number of FTE permanent staff, sometimes called the budget-to-staff ratio. It is used to express the average number of dollars managed by each agency staff member (see also Appendix D, Table D-1)
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