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DATA IDENTIFICATION


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Researchers(in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants
Indicator purpose

This indicator is a direct measure of the number of research and development workers.

Abstract

The researchers (in full-time equivalent) 10,000 population is a direct measure of the number of research and development workers per 10,000 people. Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge including knowledge of humankind, culture and society and to devise new applications of available knowledge.

Data source

Ministry for Health Science and Technology

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Ministry for Health Science and Technology

Date last updated
07-OCT-2019
Periodicity

Annual

Unit of measure

Percentage (%)

Other characteristics

Researchers are professionals engaged in the conception or creation of new knowledge. They conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories, models, techniques instrumentation, software or operational methods.

DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge.

The Full-time equivalent (FTE) of R&D personnel is defined as the ratio of working hours actually spent on R&D during a specific reference period (usually a calendar year) divided by the total number of hours conventionally worked in the same period by an individual or by a group.

Disaggregation

Researchers can be broken down by sector of employment, field of science, sex and age.

Key statistical concepts

Computation of the indicator Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per 10, 000 inhabitants uses available population data as denominator.

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OTHER ASPECTS



Recommended uses

This indicator helps the Ministry for Health Science and Technology to conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories, models, techniques instrumentation and software.

Limitations

R&D data need to be collected through surveys, which are expensive, and are not done on a regular basis in many developing countries. Furthermore, (developing) countries do not always cover all sectors of performance. In particular the business sector is not always covered.

Other comments

The OECD Frascati Manual (OECD, 2015) provides the relevant definitions for research and experimental development, gross domestic expenditure on R&D and researchers. Although an OECD manual, the application is global. During the 6th revision of the Frascati Manual, developing country issues were mainstreamed in the core of the Manual. The 7th edition was released in October 2015.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.