Should participants included in the Participant Support cost category (Line F) of the NSF Budget be counted as a job created or retained?
Generally, those included in the Participant Support cost category are people who are participating in a conference, meeting, symposia, or workshop and are not employed to work on the NSF-supported project. Therefore they would not meet the Office of Management and Budget definition of a job and should not be counted as a job created or retained on the recipient’s quarterly ARRA report.
