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R&D researchers. By sex

R&D researchers. Total 2015
Value % over total
Catalonia 26,403 100.0
Spain 122,437 100.0
European Union-27 1,565,287 (e) Estimated value 100.0
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.
R&D researchers. Men 2015
Value % over total
Catalonia 15,926 60.3
Spain 74,708 61.0
European Union-27 1,111,049 (e) Estimated value 71.0
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.
R&D researchers. Women 2015
Value % over total
Catalonia 10,477 39.7
Spain 47,729 39.0
European Union-27 454,238 (e) Estimated value 29.0
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.

Last update: July 26, 2017. Revised series on December 7, 2022.

RD

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on R&D Activities (RD).

Methodological note

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.

The main breakdown of R&D statistics is by four institutional sectors of performance. These four sectors of performance are the business enterprise sector (BES), the government sector (GOV), the higher education sector (HES) and the private non-profit sector (PNP).

Basic data on R&D personnel are expressed as head count (HC) and full time equivalents (FTE). Total national R&D personnel is obtained by summing up the R&D personnel employed in the four different sectors of performance.

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