The revisions below were made after the publication was printed.
August 2006
In Volume 2:
- Appendix table 2-27
Data for mechanical engineering and industrial engineering were switched for the all race/ethnicities and citizenships rows. The data for these two rows has been revised.
- Appendix table 2-30 Incorrect data was included in this table. All data in this table has been revised.
May 2006
In Volume 2:
- Appendix table 4-57 The units for the first column head should be (PPP $ millions).
February 2006
In Volume 1:
- Table 2-5 The column head "Europe" should also span the first "Total" column.
- Figure 2-29 The y-axis unit should be "Recipients (thousands)."
- Figure 4-4 "Industry" in the bottom pie (performing sector) should be 15.9%, not 16.4%.
- Figure 4-42 The line labels "France" and "UK" are reversed.
- Figure 4-44 The y-axis unit is "Percent."
- Figure 6-27 The x-axis is the period from 1990 to 2003.
- Figure 7-5 For the subject "Bush decision on stem cell research," the value should be 31, not 1.
In Volume 2:
- Appendix table 2-39 Data in the columns "All S&E fields" and "NS&E" have been revised.
- Appendix table 3-10 The heading "Employed" should span the columns "All employed," "Full time," and "Part time."
- Appendix table 7-9 The column head "Sex and education level" should be "Characteristics."
- Appendix table 7-12 The column heads "The universe began with a huge explosion. (True)" and "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. (True)" should be followed by the footnote, "This question asked of slightly >75% of survey respondents."
The corrected version of these figures and tables is available in excel format on this web site.
