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Suggested Citation: "Appendix G: Profile of Average NRI and AFRI Projects (20082012)." National Research Council. 2014. Spurring Innovation in Food and Agriculture: A Review of the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18652.

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Profile of Average NRI and AFRI Projects (2008–2012)

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TABLE G-1 Sample Statistics of NRI Projects, 2008^a


	Unit	Mean	Standard Deviation

PROJECT OUTPUTS
Refereed Journal Articles	Number published	2.65	5.29
Citations per Article	Number per article	6.86	14.01

PROJECT SCALE
Budget	$0,000	39.32	25.98
Project Duration	Months	31.61	9.45

PROJECT SCOPE
Project Complexity
Number of Co-PIs	Number	2.92	2.97

Current Support^b
Federal Support		0.73	0.44
Non-Federal Support		0.52	0.50
No Other Support		0.10

Project Functions
Research	%	93.53	20.95
Extension	%	4.29	12.88
Education	%	2.18	8.59

Project Composition
Basic Research	%	61.35	34.60
Applied Research	%	32.33	29.51
Extension or Education	%	6.32

PROJECT LOCUS
Subject Area
Plants		0.314	0.465
Animals		0.212	0.409
Food/Nutrition		0.145	0.353
Social Sciences		0.067	0.249
Bio-Products		0.048	0.213
Ecosystems		0.214	0.411

Type of Performing Institution
Federal		0.045	0.208
Private Research		0.029	0.167
Private University		0.043	0.203
Public Non–Land-Grant Univ		0.083	0.277
Land-Grant University		0.800	0.400

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	Unit	Mean	Standard Deviation

Rank of Project Director
Professor		0.48	0.50
Associate Professor		0.19	0.39
Assistant Professor		0.20	0.40
Federal Scientist or Other		0.09	0.28
Pre- or Postdoctorate		0.04	0.20

Award Type
Area		0.33	0.47
Conference		0.11	0.31
Standard		0.56	0.50

OTHER FACTORS
Laboratory Assistance
Undergraduate	FTE months	7.66	14.84
Graduates	FTE months	18.25	22.29
Postdoctorates	FTE months	13.10	17.34

Project Vintage	Months since start date

Completed Project	1 if completed, 0 other

^aIndicator (0/1) variables. Means shown are percentages of the sample falling into the respective category, expressed in decimal form.

^bAFRI project directors may receive support from a variety of sources. The sum of the percentages of support sources therefore is greater than unity.

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TABLE G-2 Sample Statistics of AFRI Projects, 2009–2010^a


	Unit	Mean	Standard Deviation

PROJECT OUTPUTS
Refereed Journal Articles	Number published	1.79	2.90
Citations per Article	Number per article	2.62	6.58
Non-Refereed Communications	Number communicated	1.74	3.25

PROJECT SCALE
Budget	$0,000	43.9	41.0
Project Duration	Months	41.7	9.7

PROJECT SCOPE
Project Complexity
Number of Co-PIs	Number	3.52	3.19

Current Support^b
Federal Support		0.66	0.47
Non-Federal Support		0.51	0.50
No Other Support		0.14	0.34

Project Function
Research	%	89.22	24.79
Extension	%	5.48	16.16
Education	%	5.30	17.73

Project Composition
Basic Research	%	60.24	35.21
Applied Research	%	28.98	26.22
Extension and Education	%	10.81	22.29

PROJECT LOCUS
Subject Area
Plants		0.37	0.48
Animals		0.21	0.40
Food/Nutrition		0.15	0.36
Social Sciences		0.05	0.22
Bio-Products		0.04	0.20
Ecosystems		0.18	0.39

Type of Performing Institution
Federal		0.05	0.23
Private Research		0.03	0.16
Private University		0.05	0.21
Public Non–Land-Grant Univ		0.10	0.29
Land-Grant University		0.77	0.45

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	Unit	Mean	Standard Deviation

Rank of Project Director
Professor		0.40	0.49
Associate Professor		0.18	0.38
Assistant Professor		0.29	0.46
Federal Scientist		0.05	0.22
Postdoctorate or Other		0.08

Award Type
FASE		0.29	0.45
CAP		0.01	0.11
Conference		0.07	0.28
Standard		0.63	0.48

OTHER FACTORS
Laboratory Assistance
Undergraduate	FTE months	10.5	52.9
Graduate	FTE months	25.0	33.8
Postdoctorates	FTE months	11.8	19.4
Postdoctorates	FTE months	42.2	3.3
Project Vintage	months since start date
Project Vintage	months since start date	0.33	0.47
Completed Project	1 if completed, 0 other

^aIndicator (0/1) variables. Means shown are percentages of the sample falling into the respective category, expressed in decimal form.

^bAFRI project directors may receive support from a variety of sources. The sum of the percentages of support sources therefore is greater than unity.

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TABLE G-3 Sample Statistics of AFRI Projects, 2011–2012^a


	Unit	Mean	Standard Deviation

PROJECT OUTPUTS
Refereed Journal Articles	Number published	0.88	3.60
Citations per Article	Number per article	0.42	1.76
Non-Refereed Communications	Number communicated	0.73	2.16

PROJECT SCALE
Budget	$0,000	119.55	346.26
Project Duration	Months	37.79	13.39

PROJECT SCOPE
Project Complexity
Number of Co-PIs	Number	4.29	4.76

Current Support^b
Federal Support		0.70	0.46
Non-Federal Support		0.45	0.50
No Other Support		0.17	0.38

Project Functions
Research	%	88.30	23.73
Extension	%	6.10	16.43
Education	%	5.70	15.88

Project Composition
Basic Research	%	54.85	36.84
Applied Research	%	33.46	35.85
Extension or Education	%	10.80	21.87

PROJECT LOCUS
Subject Area
Plants		0.12	0.33
Animals		0.11	0.31
Food/Nutrition		0.05	0.23
Social Sciences		0.08	0.27
Bio-Products		0.07	0.26
Ecosystems		0.03	0.17

Type of Performing Institution
Federal		0.04	0.18
Private Research		0.02	0.14
Private University		0.06	0.23
Public Non–Land-Grant Univ		0.10	0.30
Land-Grant University		0.78	0.41

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	Unit	Mean	Standard Deviation

Rank of Project Director
Professor		0.32	0.47
Associate Professor		0.18	0.39
Assistant Professor		0.22	0.41
Federal Scientist		0.02	0.16
Postdoctorate or Other		0.26

Award Type
FASE		0.39	0.49
CAP		0.03	0.17
Conference		0.05	0.24
Standard		0.53	0.50

Program Area
Challenge Grant		0.33	0.47
Fellowship Grant		0.21	0.41
Foundational Grant		0.46	0.50

OTHER FACTORS
Laboratory Assistance
Undergraduate	FTE	12.86	52.67
Graduates	FTE	33.99	71.40
Postdoctorates	FTE	19.43	43.98
Postdoctorates	FTE	20.12	7.47
Project Vintage	Months since start date
Project Vintage	Months since start date	0.08	0.18
Completed Project	1 if completed, 0 other

^aIndicator (0/1) variables. Means shown are percentages of the sample falling into the respective category, expressed in decimal form.

^bAFRI project directors may receive support from a variety of sources. The sum of the percentages of support sources therefore is greater than unity.

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TABLE G-4 Budget Regression on Outputs and Inputs, AFRI 2009–2010 and 2011–2012


	Variable	2009–2010		2011–2012
	Variable	Linear	Interactive	Linear	Interactive

OUTPUTS	Intercept	23.15	24.43	–110.22	–92.29
	Number of Journal Articles	1.44	1.14	8.54	–1.91
	Number of Journal Articles	(3.24)	(1.90)	(4.08)	(–0.50)

INTERACTIONS	Number of Non–Refereed Articles			16.71	–9.39
	Number of Non–Refereed Articles			(4.86)	(–0.75)
	Number of Refereed Articles/Number of PIs		0.06		0.54
	Number of Refereed Articles/Number of PIs		(0.73)		(3.30)
	Number of Non–Refereed Articles/Duration				0.58
	Number of Non–Refereed Articles/Duration				(2.30)

SCALE	Project Duration (months)	1.09	1.10	2.06	2.01
SCALE	Project Duration (months)	(8.28)	(8.31)	(3.50)	(3.34)

SCOPE	Number of Principal Investigators	2.14	1.97	26.26	24.13
	Number of Principal Investigators	(4.50)	(3.69)	(12.52)	(11.22)
	Basic Research Proportion of Project	–0.06	–0.06	–0.25	–0.27
	Basic Research Proportion of Project	(–1.24)	(–1.26)	(–1.20)	(–1.34)

Award Type	FASE (Base = Standard Grant)	–8.60	–8.63
	FASE (Base = Standard Grant)	(–3.11)	(–3.12)
	CAP (Base = Standard Grant)	229.69	227.01	903.64	884.86
	CAP (Base = Standard Grant)	(17.39)	(16.56)	(17.75)	(17.46)

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LOCUS	Institution Type
	Private University (Base = all other institutions)	21.07	21.14
	Private University (Base = all other institutions)	(3.61)	(3.62)
	Public NLG University (Base = all other institutions)			45.27	43.00
	Public NLG University (Base = all other institutions)			(1.91)	(1.83)

Subject Area	Plants	10.45	10.42
	Plants	(2.77)	(2.76)
	Animals	14.59	14.39
	Animals	(3.46)	(3.41)
	Food	16.59	16.56
	Food	(3.99)	(3.98)
	Bio-Products	8.83	8.71
	Bio-Products	(1.29)	(1.27)
	Social Science	3.01	2.83
		(0.49)	(0.46)

		Base = Ecosystems	Base = Ecosystems	Base = Ecosystems	Base = Ecosystems

OTHER	Project Vintage (months)	–1.00	–1.02
OTHER	Project Vintage (months)	(–2.60)	(–2.64)

Statistics	R²	0.630	0.630	0.700	0.706
Statistics	N	447	447	726	726

NOTES: Dependent variable is Project Budget. Conference and Planning Grants are not included in the dataset. If an input has a positive (negative) output-constant effect on budget, then it has a negative (positive) budget-constant effect on that output.

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FIGURE G-1 Frequency distributions of project budgets and performance ratios, 2008.

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FIGURE G-2 Frequency distributions of project budgets and performance ratios, 2009—2010.

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FIGURE G-3 Frequency distributions of project budgets and performance ratios, 2011—2012.

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