Summary of changes to 2011 BRDIS

2011 Business Research & Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)

Office of Management and Budget Approval

This document outlines the differences between the 2010 and 2011 surveys. It goes in section order and includes only those changes to the survey we deem significant enough to affect the burden of completion. Questions new to the 2011 are highlighted in yellow.

Affected Section and Question: Change:

2: Question 2-6	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
2: Question 2-8	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
2: Question 2-9	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
2: Question 2-10	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
2: Question 2-11*	Consolidated expenses for equipment, temporary staffing, materials and supplies and allocated costs, not reported elsewhere into all other costs (rows d, e, f and k into row l)
2: Question 2-11*	Added an expense row for intercompany R&D transactions
2	Added a question for R&D performance expense at second largest R&D activity location in the United States
2: Question 2-28	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
3: Question 3-4	Changed question to collect R&D expense by business code for domestic performance; 2010 BRDIS has question collecting worldwide R&D expense by business code
3: Question 3-8	Consolidated expenses for equipment, temporary staffing, materials and supplies and allocated costs, not reported elsewhere into all other costs (rows d, e, f and k into row l)
3	Added a question for R&D performance expense at largest R&D activity location in the United States
3	Added a question for R&D performance expense at second largest R&D activity location in the United States
3: Question 3-17	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
4: Questions 4-3 to 4-8	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
4: Questions 4-14 to 4-16	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
4: Question 4-19	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
4: Question 4-24	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
5: Questions 5-7 to 5-9	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
5: Question 5-11	Eliminated from 2011 BRDIS
7	Eliminated Section 7 from BRDIS

Summary of changes to BRDIS-1 by section:

Section 1: no changes

Section 2:

2010 BRDIS: 29 questions

2011 BRDIS: 25 questions

Section 3:

2010 BRDIS: 22 questions

2011 BRDIS: 23 questions

Section 4:

2010 BRDIS: 32 questions

2011 BRDIS: 14 questions

Section 5:

2010 BRDIS: 11 questions

2011 BRDIS: 8 questions

Section 6: no changes

Section 7: eliminated from 2011 BRDIS

*RevisedQuestion 2-11

	Domestic	Foreign	Total worldwide
a. Salaries, wages, and fringe benefits
b. Stock-based compensation
c. Temporary staffing including on-site consultants
d. Depreciation and amortization on R&D property and equipment
e. Intercompany transactions (R&D transactions between domestic and foreign operations owned by your company)
1. Of line e, payments from domestic operations to foreign operations		( )	NA
2. Of line e, payments to domestic operations from foreign operations	( )		NA
f. Payments to unaffiliated business partners for collaborative R&D
g. Purchased R&D services
i. All other purchased services (if your company is foreign-owned, include payments to your foreign owner for R&D)
i. All other costs
j. Total