Businessd R&D and Innovation Survey

BRDI-1(CT)
(11/1614)

The online survey automatically skips
questions that do not apply to your
company and checks for common errors.

A SMART SURVEY SAVES TIME

https://econhelp.census.gov/brdis

We understand that fulfilling your
company’s obligation to complete the
Business R&D and Innovation Survey
(BRDI-1) can be time consuming. That is
why we have introduced several tools to
aid you in this task on the survey’s website:

YOUR TIME IS
IMPORTANT!!!

https://econhelp.census.gov/brdis

Find question-by-question instructions on
the “Forms & Instructions” page and the
answers to frequently asked questions on
the “FAQs” page on the survey website:

IN-DEPTH INSTRUCTIONS

Don’t worry if you find a mistake after
submitting your survey – you can resubmit
the survey if you need to make corrections.

For your records, you can save your survey
data to a PDF by clicking “Tools” then
“View/Print report as PDF”.

You can exit the online survey and come
back as many times as necessary. Your
work will be saved on secure Census
Bureau servers.

Use the User ID and Password located
in the letter we mailed to you to file your
survey online.

Key your data by hand or upload it from
our Excel survey worksheets saved on
your computer. The online survey will
check the uploaded data for errors.

For general survey guidelines or questions,
call 1-800-772-7851 (option ‘1’ for English,
then option ‘5’). For technical or content
related questions, call 1-800-851-2014
(option ‘0’) between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00
p.m. ET, Monday through Friday.

CONTACT US

The Excel worksheets are designed to help
you collect and consolidate information
within your company. For more
information, go to the survey’s website.

Download Microsoft Excel versions of the
survey, located on the survey’s website.

EXCEL WORKSHEETS

https://econhelp.census.gov/brdis

To log in to the online survey, click the
“Survey Log in” button, located on the
survey’s website:

SECURE ONLINE REPORTING

FLEXIBLE DATA ENTRY

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