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Researchers (in Full-time Equivalent) Per Million Inhabitants
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9.5.2 Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants
Metadata
| Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | The indicator is a direct measure of the number of research and development workers per 1 million people referred to in the target. |
| Target value of the indicator and its evaluation | |
| Definition | 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. Researchers include Ph.D. students, if they are employees of the surveyed organization and are engaged in R&D activities. 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. One FTE equals one-year (full-time) work of a member of personnel who is 100% engaged in R&D activities. The FTE indicator also includes the number of persons working for the reporting unit under various contracts for work converted according to the methodology valid for the FTE. |
| Measuring unit | Full-time jobs per 1,000,000 inhabitants |
| Indicator disaggregation | |
| Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Year |
| Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0) |
| Comment | Distinction between researchers and technicians and euqivalent staff is quite general, based on the recommendations aand definitions given in the Frascati manual. The terminology used does not necessarily correspond to the terminology or content of the division of employees used at universities, in public research institutions and especially in enterprises where R&D is carried out. In the business enterprise sector, it is better to merge researchers and technicians and equivalent staff into one category. The above mentioned also applies to international comparisons, and this should be taken into account when interpreting the data. |
| Update periodicity | Annually |
| Time coverage since | 2005 |
| Time coverage until | 2022 |
| Time series available at the data provider since | 2005 |
| Data publication date (resp. the date when the data provider publishes (regularly) data; it is given in the format T + the number of days, months or years when T is the end of the reference period) | T+10 months |
| Contact point - data provider - e-mail | marek.stampach@czso.cz |
| Contact point - data provider - name | Marek Štampach |
| Data source | Czech Statistical Office |
| Data origin | Annual survey on research and development - Questionnaire VRT 5-01 |
| Links to detailed metadata or methodology | https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-09-05-02.pdf https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/statistika_vyzkumu_a_vyvoje |
| Links to international comparison | https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/science-technology-innovation/overview https://www.oecd.org/sti/msti.htm https://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/researchanddevelopmentstatisticsrds.htm http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/research-and-development |