Presented by the Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) at the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) on February 20, 2009

What Users Said	How SRS Will Address
Important to show small counts of underrepresented minorities	Protect confidentiality by aggregating small fields rather than by suppressing small cells
Zeroes are important; need to display zeroes	Display zeroes
Not useful if aggregate into underrepresented minorities	Report all underrepresented minority groups separately
Lose data/ability to follow trends if aggregate years	Report data for single years
Field aggregation must be meaningful; CIP a possibility for this purpose	Use CIP to inform aggregation of small fields
Not making full use of data if include multi-racial in Other category	Report separately those reporting more than one race

CIP = Classification of Instructional Programs