Federal Obligations in Current and Constant (1996) Dollars for Research, by Field of Science statistics



Field	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999,	2000,
																				prel.	prel.

CURRENT DOLLARS

Research, total	11,597	12,213	13,022	14,254	14,979	16,133	16,502	17,941	18,650	20,766	21,622	23,968	24,491	26,891	27,411	28,434	28,260	29,365	30,922	33,822	34,680

Basic	4,674	5,041	5,482	6,260	7,067	7,819	8,153	8,942	9,474	10,602	11,286	12,171	12,490	13,399	13,523	13,877	14,464	14,942	15,613	17,367	18,209
Applied	6,923	7,172	7,541	7,993	7,911	8,315	8,349	8,998	9,177	10,164	10,337	11,798	12,001	13,491	13,888	14,557	13,796	14,423	15,309	16,455	16,470

Life sciences	4,192	4,436	4,746	5,178	5,636	6,363	6,464	7,341	7,725	8,495	8,830	9,622	9,910	10,772	11,284	11,811	12,064	12,661	13,558	15,385	15,562
Psychology	199	209	218	241	267	327	334	370	390	422	449	482	298	551	548	623	525	545	591	662	686
Physical sciences	2,001	2,221	2,500	2,891	2,969	3,046	3,069	3,253	3,317	3,705	3,809	4,235	4,439	4,427	4,254	4,278	3,923	4,149	4,210	4,457	4,719
Environmental sciences	1,261	1,121	1,148	1,251	1,276	1,404	1,482	1,512	1,607	1,773	2,174	2,150	2,208	2,608	2,838	2,854	3,020	3,046	3,062	3,171	3,209
Mathematics and computer sciences	241	279	350	419	440	575	615	641	643	735	841	904	1,160	1,225	1,302	1,579	1,572	1,672	1,837	2,008	2,131
Engineering	2,830	3,072	3,387	3,517	3,624	3,618	3,739	3,906	3,956	4,442	4,227	4,945	4,977	5,499	5,479	5,708	5,681	5,690	5,895	6,092	6,219
Social sciences	524	497	386	435	436	460	416	480	486	551	630	727	690	675	647	679	655	696	806	895	890
Other sciences, n.e.c. ¹	350	379	287	320	331	342	383	438	527	642	664	903	808	1,133	1,058	902	821	905	964	1,153	1,264

CONSTANT (1996) DOLLARS ²

Research, total	20,592	19,781	19,743	20,681	20,949	21,855	21,834	23,126	23,289	24,965	25,043	26,771	26,737	28,632	29,186	28,982	28,260	28,874	30,022	32,427	32,747

Basic	8,299	8,165	8,310	9,083	9,884	10,592	10,787	11,527	11,830	12,746	13,072	13,594	13,635	14,266	14,399	14,144	14,464	14,692	15,158	16,651	17,195
Applied	12,293	11,616	11,432	11,598	11,065	11,263	11,047	11,598	11,460	12,219	11,972	13,178	13,102	14,364	14,787	14,838	13,796	14,182	14,863	15,776	15,553

Life sciences	7,444	7,184	7,195	7,513	7,882	8,619	8,553	9,463	9,647	10,213	10,227	10,747	10,819	11,469	12,015	12,039	12,064	12,450	13,163	14,751	14,695
Psychology	353	338	331	350	373	443	442	476	487	507	520	538	325	587	584	635	525	536	574	634	648
Physical sciences	3,552	3,597	3,791	4,195	4,152	4,126	4,061	4,193	4,142	4,454	4,412	4,730	4,846	4,714	4,529	4,361	3,923	4,080	4,087	4,273	4,456
Environmental sciences	2,239	1,816	1,741	1,815	1,784	1,902	1,960	1,948	2,007	2,132	2,518	2,401	2,410	2,777	3,022	2,909	3,020	2,995	2,973	3,040	3,030
Mathematics and computer sciences	428	452	531	609	616	779	814	826	803	884	974	1,010	1,266	1,304	1,386	1,610	1,572	1,644	1,783	1,925	2,012
Engineering	5,025	4,975	5,134	5,103	5,069	4,901	4,947	5,035	4,940	5,340	4,895	5,523	5,433	5,855	5,834	5,818	5,681	5,595	5,724	5,840	5,872
Social sciences	930	806	585	632	610	623	550	619	607	662	730	812	753	719	689	692	655	685	783	858	840
Other sciences, n.e.c. ¹	621	614	435	465	462	463	507	565	657	772	769	1,009	882	1,206	1,127	919	821	890	936	1,105	1,193

NOTE: Constant 1996 dollar deflator:	0.5632	0.6174	0.6596	0.6892	0.715	0.7382	0.7558	0.7758	0.8008	0.8318	0.8634	0.8953	0.916	0.9392	0.9392	0.9811	1.000	1.017	1.030	1.043	1.059

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992. Federal Obligations in Current and Constant (1996) Dollars for Research, by Field of Science