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Total Number Of Research And Development Personnel
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8.1.3 Total number of research and development personnel
Metadata
| Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | Qualified human resources working directly in research and development play a key role in the process of creating and transferring knowledge and are thus one of the fundamental prerequisites for ensuring the long-term sustainable economic and technological development of the company through its own forces. |
| Target value of the indicator and its evaluation | Not specified - Increasing the number of R&D personnel per 1 million people |
| Definition | Persons employed in research and development (hereinafter only referred to as R&D personnel) comprise researchers, technicians, administrators, and other supporting staff working at R&D workplaces in individual reporting units, who ensure direct services for those workplaces. The R&D personnel category includes all persons aged 15+ years paid in employment. The formal job attachment mainly refers to an employment contract, an agreement on work performance, and an agreement on work activity. R&D personnel are broken down according to the work they perform (occupation) as follows: – researchers, who are engaged in the conception or creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods, and systems or who manage such projects. They are mainly professionals and R&D managers; – technicians and equivalent staff (hereinafter only referred to as technicians) who participate in R&D by performing scientific and technical tasks involving the application of concepts, operational methods and the use of research equipment, normally under the supervision of researchers; – other supporting staff who are skilled and unskilled craftsmen, and administrative, secretarial, and clerical staff participating in R&D projects or directly associated with such projects; also included are managers, administrators, and clerical staff, activities of whom are a direct service to R&D. The number of R&D personnel is surveyed by two main measurement units; they are the headcount and the full-time equivalent of R&D personnel (engaged in work on R&D activities equalling to one year of full-time work): – headcount of R&D personnel refers to the registered number of persons fully or partially engaged in research and development activities, employed in the reporting units in main or secondary employment as at the end of the reference year. Primarily in the higher education sector and partially also in the government sector, a huge amount of R&D personnel, especially researchers, have an employment contract in more entities. Therefore, in these sectors, the indicator is overestimated and does not provide the real number of persons working in R&D; – full-time equivalent (FTE) refers to the average registered number of R&D personnel converted to annual full-time workload devoted to R&D activities. 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 agreements on work performance and agreements on work activity converted according to the methodology valid for the FTE. Research and experimental development 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. For more information see: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development, Frascati Manual, OECD, 2015 (https://www.oecd.org/publications/frascati-manual-2015-9789264239012-en.htm). |
| Measuring unit | Million CZK, % |
| Indicator disaggregation | Breakdown by: Occupation Sex Sector of R&D performance Field of R&D (FORD classification) Industry (CZ-NACE section) Region (CZ-NUTS 3) |
| Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Year |
| Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0), region (NUTS 3) |
| Comment | The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) research and development personnel in Czechia increased by 62 % between 2010 and 2021, from 52.3 thousand to 84.8 thousand. The share of R&D personnel in the employed population and in the population is also increasing. Since 2010 more than half of full-time equivalent R&D personnel in Czechia (58% in 2021) has been working in business enterprise sector, 25 % in higher education and 17.0 % in the government sector in 2021. Less than 30% of R&D personnel in Czechia are women. Within the EU27, together with the Netherlands, Germany and Austria, we have long been among the countries with the lowest proportion of women among R&D personnel. In 2021, close to 80 % of R&D personnel (FTE) in Czechia was primary engaged in science and engineering field of R&D. I tis one of the highest share among EJU member states. The share of R&D personnel in total employment – measured on a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis – exceeds 2% in Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Austria in 2021, compared with an EU average of 1.6 %. Regarding this indicator, Czechia is above the EU average with 1,7% share of R&D personnel in total employment. Six Member States (Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Latvia, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Slovakia) reported a lower than 1% share of R&D workers in their total employment in 2021. |
| Update periodicity | Annually |
| Time coverage since | 2010 |
| Time coverage until | 2021 |
| 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 |
| 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 R&D survey |
| Links to detailed metadata or methodology | https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/statistika_vyzkumu_a_vyvoje |
| Links to international comparison | https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/science-technology-innovation/data/database oe.cd/rds https://www.oecd.org/sti/msti.htm http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/research-and-development |