aaac:aas [Assay and Acquisition of Radiopure Materials]

American Astronomical Society

Our digital job register data goes back to 2003.
Our digital membership data goes back at least 10 years.
- Demographic information is self-reported and not broadly consistent with federal standards of classification.
- Our membership data will have the unclear bias of “people who choose to be AAS members.”
- It is not obvious how this would bias the information.
  - Possible examples:
    - Are we undersampling small institutions?
    - Are some other institutions over or under-represented based on local department culture?
    - Are astronomers from certain types of institutions more likely to be AAS members?
- In addition, the overlaps between our membership and the proposing-and-funded or proposing-and-not-funded cohorts are unclear.
We think we could provide a secondary estimate of the field demographics to compare to the agencies' datasets, but as a primary source, our data would introduce unclear biases.
Draft v2 of our proposed AAS member survey on grant proposal success rates available here