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TABLE 4‐1 AAS Membership statistics for 1989, 1997, and 2009<br />
Year 1989 1997 2009<br />
Discipline<br />
Observational Radio 13.7 10.4 8.9%<br />
Observational IR 7.6 5.7 10.3%<br />
Observational Optical 36.5 34.6 44.3%<br />
Observational UV 5.0 6.5 2.6%<br />
Observational High Energy 5.6 8.7 11.6%<br />
Experimental Particles 1.1 1.3 1.3%<br />
Laboratory <strong>Astrophysics</strong> 2.2 2.2 0.1%<br />
<strong>The</strong>ory 23.8 23.9 16.7%<br />
Administration 1.7 3.5 0.4%<br />
Education and Public Outreach N/A N/A 2.5%<br />
Amateur or Historian 2.6 3.0 0.6%<br />
Aeronomy 0.3 0.4 0.5%<br />
Field<br />
Planetary and Solar System 15.0 11.6 9.5%<br />
Solar 10.3 10.7 4.6%<br />
Stellar 29.9 25.4 23.6%<br />
ISM + Galaxy 4.4 8.3 9.4%<br />
Galaxies + Cluster 10.7 12.2 19.3%<br />
Active Galactic Nuclei 10.5 7.5 7.0%<br />
Star and Planet Formation 6.3 5.7 5.3%<br />
Instrumentation 5.5 8.1 10.4%<br />
Cosmology 5.8 8.7 6.8%<br />
Fundamental Experimental 1.6 1.8 0.4%<br />
Location<br />
Research University 47.4 47.5 44.1%<br />
College 8.4 10.1 15.1%<br />
FFRDC 9.9 11.2 11.9%<br />
Government lab 18.8 19.8 22.2%<br />
Private observatory 3.8 2.7 2.8%<br />
Industry 8.0 6.0 3.0%<br />
Education / Public Outreach N/A N/A 0.4%<br />
Other 3.7 2.7 0.5%<br />
Note: Demographic statistics based on sampling approximately 20 percent <strong>of</strong> AAS full members in<br />
the given year. <strong>The</strong> 1989 and 1997 statistics <strong>of</strong> 714 and 599 full members are from the NRC’s FFAR<br />
(2000) report. <strong>The</strong> formal counting uncertainties are approximately 1—2%. For direct comparison<br />
to the FFAR methodology, the 2009 statistics were derived by selecting 800 full members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
AAS at random and matching their names against the FFAR literature search. Affiliation was<br />
identified either by the address provided in the AAS database, or by the affiliation listed on the<br />
most recent publication.<br />
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