ABSTRACT
This chapter presents analysis and results primarily based on information collected in National Science Survey, 2004 undertaken by the National Council of Applied Economic Research. It discusses missing data to explain the impact of missing values on analysis of public attitude towards S&T. The chapter also presents a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model to assess the public attitude towards S&T in states of India. Since all the attitude items were recoded as dichotomous variables, weighted least squares method with tetrachoric correlation was used to construct the CFA model. Before constructing any model for Indian public attitude to S&T, missing value analysis was carried out on ISS-2004 data to detect any potential bias introduced by missing at random or missing not at random types of missingness. India Science Report was the first ever attempt at measuring public's science literacy, knowledge, interest and attitude in India through structured primary survey data collected with specific objective of measuring the aforementioned science indicators.
