5 MEASUREMENT OF R&D PERSONNEL

5.3.4. Recommended national aggregates and variables

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The two recommended aggregates are for:

●The number of personnel employed in R&D measured in head counts.

●Total FTE spent in the performance of R&D on national territory for a given 12-month period.

These should be broken down by sector and by occupation and/or formal qualification, as shown in Tables 5.3a and 5.3b. In case only one classification can be provided, priority should be given to the distribution by occupation. The other institutional classifications (and sometimes the functional distributions) are applied within this framework.

Table 5.3a. Total national R&D personnel by sector and by occupation

				Sector
	Occupation
		Business		Private	Higher
			Government	non-profit		Total
		enterprise			education
	Researchers
	Technicians and equivalent staff
	Other supporting staff
	Total

Source: OECD.

Table 5.3b. Total national R&D personnel by sector and by level of qualification

				Sector
	Qualification
		Business	Government	Private	Higher	Total
		enterprise		non-profit	education

Holders of:

University degrees

PhD (ISCED 6)

Other (ISCED 5A)

Other tertiary diplomas (ISCED 5B) Other post-secondary non-tertiary diplomas (ISCED 4)

Secondary diplomas (ISCED 3)

Other qualifications

Total

Source: OECD.

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