Three approaches to STI measurement in developing countries

1. Three approaches to STI measurement in developing countries Ernesto Fernandez PolcuchUNESCO Institute for StatisticsInternational Conference on S&T Policy Research and Statistical Indicators08-10 November 2006 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

2. Structure of the presentation • UIS strategy in the field of S&T stats. • Three approaches: • Careers of Doctorate Holders (CDH) • Innovation • R&D • Developing countries’ specificities and way forward

3. UIS S&T Strategy

4. UNESCO International Review of S&T Statistics and Indicators Carried out jointly with UNESCO Division of Science Analysis and Policy (SC/AP) and Regional Office for S&T in Latin America and the Caribbean (ROSTLAC) in 2002/2003. Objectives: • To review priority science policy information needs. • To examine existing S&T statistical and indicator systems. • To identify key areas for future development of S&T statistics. • To define the future role and strategy of the UIS.

5. General S&T Policy Issues Extremely Important Resources Not or Somewhat Important Impact on Society VeryImportant Dissemination of knowledge & tech. transfer S&T output Institutions & Mechanisms 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

6. Immediate term priorities (Human & Financial Resources) • R&D personnel • Expenditure in R&D • Human resources devoted to S&T • Science education • Higher education • International mobility • Gender

7. Medium term priorities (Innovation) • Measurement of innovation in agriculture and other non-manufacturing sectors • Promoting the use of indicators reflecting sub-national (regional) innovation systems • Measuring minor or incremental innovation • Measuring innovative applications of existing products or processes (surveys of use of technologies) • Output

8. Longer term priorities (Output & Impact) • Output: • Bibliometric tools adapted for the analysis of scientific output in developing countries • Technology output indicators • Impact indicators: • Measuring social impact of S&T, • Impact of S&T on agriculture, • Public perception of S&T

9. Ongoing activities • S&T Survey operation and data guardianship • Training in S&T statistics: Workshops • Standard setting/Methodological developments: • Analysis / Publications • Collaborations / Partnerships

10. S&T Survey operation and data guardianship • Conducting global Survey on Statistics of Science & Technology: Biennially – currently second round • Maintaining database on S&T statistics • Data publishing on the UIS website • Contributions to external agencies

11. Survey on Statistics of Science & Technology • The 2004 S&T statistics survey was launched in May, 2004. This was the first UNESCO statistical questionnaire to be available for completion on-line via the internet. The latest resulting data were released on the UIS website May 2006. • The 2006 S&T statistics survey was launched in June/July 2006. • OECD and EUROSTAT provide data for their Member States. RICYT provides data for Latin America.

12. Survey on Statistics of Science & Technology (continued) • Questionnaire on Statistics of Science and Technology; Instruction Manual for completing questionnaire. • Data are collected from each country from either the institution responsible for S&T policy or statistics (e.g. Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Research and Higher Education, National S&T Council or similar organization) or the National Statistical Office; through a single questionnaire which cover data on all institutions carrying out R&D activities in the particular country. • Data collected: • R&D personnel by occupation & gender • R&D personnel by sector of employment & occupation • R&D personnel by sector of employment & gender • Researchers by formal qualification & sector of employment • Researchers by formal qualification & gender • Researchers by fields of science & sector of employment • Researchers by fields of science & gender • Total expenditure in R&D by sector of performance • Total expenditure in R&D by source of funds

13. 2004 Survey on Statistics of Science & Technology Results of the 2004 survey are now published on the UIS website: Data are available for 114 countries and territories. Here is an overview of the sources: http://www.uis.unesco.org

14. Evolution of 2006 survey

15. http://www.uis.unesco.org Data and Indicators published: • Number of Total R&D personnel (Headcount-HC and Full-time equivalent-FTE) by sex • Total R&D personnel (FTE) by sector of employment • Researchers (HC and FTE) by sex • Researchers (FTE) by sector of employment • Technicians and equivalent staff (HC and FTE) by sex • Other supporting staff (HC and FTE) by sex • Researchers per million inhabitants (HC and FTE) • Technicians per million inhabitants (HC and FTE) • Women as a percentage of R&D personnel (HC and FTE) • Women as a percentage of Researchers (HC and FTE) • Total Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D (GERD) in local currency and international Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars • GERD by sector of performance (%) • GERD by source of funds (%) • GERD as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) • GERD per capita

16. UIS is UN lead agency for S&T Statistics Contributes data for: • UNESCO HQs: UNESCO Science Report 2005, UNESCO World Report, International Report on Science Technology and Gender 2006. • UN Statistical Division: UN Statistical Year Book • UNDP: Human Development Report • World Bank: World Development Indicators • Specific Requests

17. S&T Statistics Workshops Diagnosis: • Production of S&T statistics in many developing regions (particularly in Africa and Asia) remains low. Capacity building is needed. UIS Response: Regional workshops • To increase the number of countries regularly producing quality S&T indicators. • To create local capacities for the production of such indicators, with the final aim of establishing sustainable local S&T statistics systems • To promote the use of S&T indicators, seeking comprehension for evidence-based S&T policy making. • To share experiences with other developing countries in the field of S&T indicators, and to address the problems that countries may have encountered in collecting S&T statistics. • To gain knowledge about the particular characteristics of S&T statistics data collection and use in the context of countries in the same region. • To generate initiatives that could be used as a demonstration for good practices in other countries of the region.

18. S&T Statistics workshops: 2005/06 • Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Workshop – held in Uganda, Sept. 2005 • South Asian Regional Workshop – held in India, Nov. 2005 • South-East AsianWorkshop – held in Indonesia, March 2006 • Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: held in Senegal, Oct. 2006 • Upcoming Workshops: • Workshop in Central Asia: will be held in Kazakhstan, Nov. 2006 • Workshop in Arab States, will be held in Jan. 2006 • Workshop in South-East Europe: will be held in Croatia, Mar. 2006

19. Standard setting/Methodological developments: • Measuring Innovation in Developing countries: Annex to the Oslo Manual (2005): Oslo Manual (Guidelines for collecting and interpreting innovation data): central reference document for the statistical definition of innovation and forms the basis for surveys of innovation throughout the world.

20. Careers of Doctoral Holders – CDH Objectives: • to track the careers of doctoral holders, with the aim of obtaining information on the loss of highly qualified specialists, the so-called ‘brain drain’. • to design an international survey tool which would help track the careers of doctorate holders which would better inform policy makers worldwide, both at global and local levels.

21. Analysis / Publications • Data on the web site. • UIS Publications (S&T Bulletin): 1st – Investment in R&D; 2nd – Bibliometric Indicators; 3rd – Women in Science (can be downloaded from the UIS website) • UNESCO Science Report 2005 • International Report on Science, Technology and Gender 2006 • UNESCO World Report • History of Science Statistics at UNESCO

22. Women in Science International Report on Science, Technology and Gender 2006 to be published by UNESCO Natural Science Sector • UIS Contribution: the chapter on ‘Statistics on Science, Technology and Gender (STG)’ with an Annex on statistical overview. • Collaboration with European Commission (Research Directorate-General) and a group of worldwide experts. • UIS Bulletin on Women in Science: available on-line in Sept 2006.

23. Collaborations / Partnerships • UNESCO HQs • OECD • Eurostat • RICYT (Latin America) • NEPAD / AU / ATPS (Africa) • ASEAN • IDRC • INRS (Quebec) • ISESCO • Inter-Academy Council • ISDB

24. Quality of data Efficient use of resources Validity and reliability Consistency over time and space Relevance to policy Accessibility and affordability Potential for disaggregation Comparability through standards Currency and punctuality Coherence across sources Clarity and transparency

25. Careers of Doctorate Holders (CDH)

26. UIS approach to Human Resources statistics: CDH project • Methodology developed “from the scratch” together with OECD & Eurostat. • Aimed both at developed and developing countries • With participation from experts from both developed and developing countries • Now being piloted • Promoting the methodology by encouraging developing countries to conduct such surveys and produce cross-nationally comparable statistics on careers of doctorate holders • What about the Sri Lankan Tracer Study of Graduates and Postgraduates? Does it fit into this project?

27. Relevance of the CDH project • World economy is increasingly based on knowledge and information. • Knowledge is now recognised as the driver of productivity and economic growth. • As a result, there is a new focus on the crucial role of highly qualified individuals who represent a key to the production, application and transmission of knowledge. • Statistics on the global trends in human resources for Science and Technology (HRST) are very week. • The quality and comparability of international data on migration is particularly weak. • Diversity of data collection methods hinders international comparability, and does not provide information on career paths and mobility patterns.

28. Background and Process Background: • ‘Brain drain’ or loss of skilled personnel identified as priority by UIS and UNESCO Paris • OECD and EU are interested in • skills loss from developing countries • Moves from university to industry • US NSF also interested in changing US patterns of academic recruitment Process: • To meet the users demands UIS, OECD & Eurostat launched a project on “Statistics on the Careers of Doctorate Holders”. • Each organization took responsibility for issues appropriate to their mandate. Expertise and resources are shared across the three partners. • Expert group: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uganda, the United States.

29. Objectives and Task forces Objectives: • To design an internationally comparable tool for tracking the careers of doctorates holders and highly qualified people in different countries. • To pilot tests of this instrument in volunteer countries. • to collect and exchange information on the career paths of holders of doctorates from existing data sources and the new survey tool. Task forces: • Production of output tabulations, and development of common definitions (led by OECD and Canada) • Drafting of methodological guidelines (led by Eurostat and Portugal). • Development of a model survey with a supporting methodology (led by UIS).

30. Output tabulation program • Conceived to be used by countries when delivering the requested data to the international organizations; • Consists of several tables organized in seven broad groups: personal characteristics, educational history, work history, scientific output, perception of current work situation, international mobility retrospective and future plans.

31. Definitions • Doctorate; • Citizenship and residential status; • Recent doctorate recipients; • Employed persons; • Unemployed and inactive persons; • Researcher; • Temporary/permanent employment, full-time and part-time employment, etc. • Postdoc

32. Methodological guidelines • Define and structure the target population • Describe the sources for building sampling frames • Present some aspects of data collection, data processing and results estimation. • Should be seen as an orientation for countries that plan to launch a CDH survey as well as a tool to improve and align their existing national surveys to an international standard.

33. Target population Consists of individuals fulfilling the following criteria: • having an education at ISCED 6 level (doctorates) obtained anywhere in the world, and • being resident (permanent or non-permanent) within the national borders of the surveying country.

34. Target population structure • Target population, residents in country X (the surveying country) that are: • Citizens of country X with doctorate awarded within country X • Citizens of foreign countries with doctorate awarded in country X • Citizens of country X with doctorate awarded abroad • Citizens of foreign countries with doctorate awarded abroad • Non-target population, residents outside country X that are: • Citizens of country X, with doctorate awarded within country X that have left country X • Citizens of foreign countries, with doctorate awarded in country X that have left country X • What to do with doctorates abroad - Groups E and F are usually taken into consideration in the reporting countries where these doctorate holders are resident. - If countries are able to construct a sample frame, and reach group E, the survey could also be extended to this group, even if countries are not requested to report information to the international organizations on them.

35. Sources for constructing sampling frames • National education registers • Universities • International and national foundations • National libraries • Population censuses • Research institutes • Professional organizations • Central registers of foreigners • Alumni organizations • Previously conducted surveys on doctorate holders

36. Survey types • Cohorts of recent graduates: • administered on graduation and repeated every few years • simple and straightforward, but • limited coverage of the target population • Snapshot surveys (cross-sectional retrospective sample of all doctorates): • one time, administered on an occasional basis • more appropriate tool for collection of information related to the entire target population • covers all cohorts at the same time • quickly provides information on the mobility and career development of doctorate holders • Should not be seen as mutually excluding but rather complementary

37. Instruments (developed by UIS) • Core model questionnaire containing “core questions” which would provide data to fill in the output tabulations. The questionnaire will be accompanied with a manual comprising the definitions and other guidelines. • CDH questions data base comprises the set of questions among which the suitable questions can be chosen and applied by countries when designing CDH surveys. CDH data base will be web-based and openly accessible. • The core model questionnaire is mainly foreseen for countries which do not have CDH type surveys yet.

38. Construction of Core model Questionnaire The following existing CDH questionnaires were used: • USA (SED and SDR), • Canada (SED), • Switzerland (Survey of Tertiary Graduates plus Doctorates surveyed the year after they received their degree), • Portugal (Survey of former PhD Scholarships receivers concerning their professional situation), • India (Pilot study on the Career Profile and Professional Achievements of Doctorates in science from the Selected Central Universities/Institutions), • Ukraine (Structure of database of Doctorate Holders in Ukraine)

39. Modules • Doctoral Education (EDU) • Recent graduates (REC) • POSTDOCS (POS) • Employment situation (EMP) • Career-related experience and scientific productivity (CAR) • International mobility (MOB) • Personal characteristics (PER)

40. Doctoral Education Information on educational history of doctorates holders, such as: • institution • field of science • duration • sources of financial support • country of previous degrees

41. Recent graduates • Data on the holders of doctorate who received their degree in the last 2 years. • Provides a complete educational history, including names and locations of secondary and each postsecondary institution, dates of attendance, field of study, and date of degrees. • Enquires about the time elapsed before obtaining first CAREER PATH JOB .

42. POSTDOCS • Would your principal job be considered a POSTDOC position in your country of residence? (PROBLEM WITH DEFINITION) • Title, Field of S&T, total length of POSTDOC • Reasons for taking this POSTDOC • Activities involved in POSTDOC (Research, teaching, other) • Main source of financial support

43. Employment situation • Detailed information on employment status, working hours, principal employer, sector and type of employment (postdoc, temporary or permanent employment, part-time or full-time job ), annual earnings, job-satisfaction. • Relationship of job & doctorate degree. • Retrospective career history within ten past years (including occupation, dates, years of experience, and reasons for leaving position). • “multi-job” pattern is foreseen. • Section for unemployed and inactive.

44. International mobility • Information on mobility patterns, including inflows (group D) and outflows (group C). • Enables to distinguish temporary mobility from permanent mobility as well as to identify the reasons for departure and return. • Provides data on intentions to move out of the country within the next year including the destination planned. • Enquires about linkages with country of origin.

45. Career-related experience and scientific productivity • Data on scientific output and experience, as well as teaching. • Section for researchers, including reasons for taking up research careers. • Enquires about international cooperation activities.

46. Personal characteristics • Marital status • Number of dependents • Place of birth, date of birth, citizenship status (in order to better deal with dual nationality as well) and residential status. • Contact information

47. Way forward • Instruments are being tested. • Joint publication with OECD & Eurostat • Involve more countries to create an international database

48. Innovation

49. UIS approach to innovation statistics • Analyse experiences in innovation measurement in developing countries. • Propose amendments to Oslo Manual. • Development of an Annex to the Oslo Manual “Measuring Innovation in Developing Countries”, with the participation of experts across the developing world. • Dissemination of Oslo Manual & Annex. Discussion of its applicability in other developing countries.

50. Measuring Innovation in developing countries • After the publication of the 2nd Oslo Manual, also developing countries started conducting innovation surveys. • The design of the surveys was intended to comply with Oslo Manual standards, with adaptations for capturing the particular characteristics of innovation processes. Adaptations were prepared by each country separately and with different approaches. • Bogotá Manual published by RICYT (Ibero American Network on S&T Indicators) first effort to compile particularities and guide the design of cross-nationally comparable innovation surveys.