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R&D researchers. By sex

R&D researchers. Total 2017
Value % over total
Catalonia 28,922 100.0
Spain 133,213 100.0
European Union-27 1,709,559 100.0
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
R&D researchers. Men 2017
Value % over total
Catalonia 17,517 60.6
Spain 81,556 61.2
European Union-27 1,205,203 (e) Estimated value 70.5
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.
R&D researchers. Women 2017
Value % over total
Catalonia 11,405 39.4
Spain 51,657 38.8
European Union-27 504,357 (e) Estimated value 29.5
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.

Last update: February 21, 2019. 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.

See also