Rights of Survey Participants
This information is solicited under the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended, and the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002. The information you provide will be used for statistical purposes only. Your responses will be kept confidential. Your response is voluntary and failure to provide some or all of the requested information will not in any way adversely affect you. Once you begin the survey, you may stop at any time or skip any question. The average time to complete this survey is about 30 minutes.
Please send any comments on the time required to complete this survey to the National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314, Attn: NSF Reports Clearance Officer. If you have questions about the ECDS, contact Peter Einaudi, the survey director from RTI International, the NSF contractor, at 866-253-1063. If you have questions about your rights as a survey participant, you may contact RTI International's Office of Research Protection at 1-866-214-2043.