Definition: "Employees"

Proportion of male and female R&D personnel in headcounts/ full-time equivalents

Source: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Survey on Research and Development (R&D). Compiled on 09 November 2009.

Research and development personnel in %  of the labour force

R&D personnel include all persons employed directly on R&D, plus persons supplying direct services to R&D, such as managers, administrative staff and office staff. The measure shown in this table is total R&D personnel in full time equivalents as a percentage of the economic active population. Please note that the calculation of the measure in this table has changed from being based on head count to full time equivalents from January 2010. The measure based on head count is still available in Eurostat public data bases.

Proportion of R&D personnel in the Business enterprise sector

Proportion of R&D personnel in the Higher education sector

Universities including clinics, universities of the arts, Austrian Academy of Science, Fachhochschulen, private universities and the Danube University Krems. 2007 including universities of education.

Proportion of R&D personnel in the Government sector

Central, regional and local institutions (except those of the higher education sector), chambers, R&D facilities of the units belonging to the social security system, private non-profit institutions controlled and/or mainly financed by government as well as R&D institutions of the Ludwig Boltzmann society; without provincial hospitals. Provincial hospitals were not surveyed with a questionnaire, but R&D expenditure was estimated by Statistics Austria based upon reports from the regional governments. Therefore no data on R&D personnel is available.

Proportion of R&D personnel in the Private non-profit sector

Private non-profit institutions with a mainly private, religious or other non-public status or under private law.