Gender: ICT - Methodology
Registered number of employees 31 December in Head Count includes actual persons directly engaged in R&D as researchers, technicians, managers, administrative clerks, etc. who signed a contract of employment with the reporting unit.
Researchers – professionals engaged in the conception or creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods and systems and also in the management of the projects concerned.
Technicians and equivalent staff (hereinafter only technicians) participate in R&D by performing scientific and technical tasks including the application of concepts and operational methods, normally under the supervision of researchers.
Other supporting staff (hereinafter only others) includes craftsmen, secretarial and clerical staff participating in R&D activities or directly associated with such projects. There are included managers and administrators insofar as their activities are direct serving to R&D.
Business sector includes all firms, organizations and institutions, whose principal activity is to produce goods or services for sale to general public at an economically significant price.
General government sector includes state administration authorities at all levels except for publicly managed institutes of higher professional and university education.
Higher professional and university education sector comprises all universities, colleges of technology, and other institutes of post-secondary (post-maturita) education. It also includes all research institutes, experimental stations and clinics operating under the direct control or administration of higher professional and university education establishments or are associated with them. The sector is not any separate institutional sector of national accounting – it was separated out by the OECD as it has an important role to play in research and development.
Non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) sector comprises private or semi-public institutions not established to make profits and private individuals and households. For example, it consists of societies, federations, unions, movements, clubs, foundations, religious societies, etc.
Holders of doctorate degrees of university level or equivalent (ISCED level 6). This category includes holders of degrees earned at universities proper and also at specialised institutes or university status.
Holders of tertiary-level degrees below the PhD level (ISCED level 5A and 5B). Category 5A includes holders of degrees earned at universities proper and also at specialised institutes of university status. For ISCED level 5B, subject matter is typically specialised, presented at a level requiring the equivalent of full secondary level education to master it. It provides a more practically oriented/occupation-specific education than programmes at ISCED levels 5A and 6.
Holder of other post-secondary non-tertiary diplomas (ISCED level 4). This class includes holders of degrees preparing students for studies at level 5, who although having completed ISCED level 3, did not follow a curriculum which would allow entry to level 5, i.e. pre-degree foundation courses or short vocational programmes.
Doctoral education, university education and partially higher professional education form the so-called tertiary education.
Holders of diplomas at the secondary level, upper stage (ISCED level 3). This class includes not only all ISCED level 3 diplomas obtained in the secondary school system but also equivalent level 3 vocational diplomas obtained from other types of educational establishments.
Other qualifications. This includes all those with secondary diplomas at less than ISCED level 3 or with incomplete secondary qualifications or education not falling under any of the other four classes.
Natural sciences – include mathematics and computer sciences (software only), physical, chemical and biological sciences, Earth and related environmental sciences.
Engineering and technology – include civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronics (hardware only), and other engineering sciences and technology (chemical, aeronautical and space, mechanical, metallurgical, technology of food production, textile technology, etc.).
Medical sciences – include basic medicine, clinical medicine, health sciences and other allied fields.
Agricultural sciences – include agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences, veterinary medicine.
Social sciences – include psychology, economics, educational sciences and other social sciences (anthropology, ethnology, demography, geography, management, law, linguistics, political sciences, sociology, etc.).
Humanities – include history, languages and literature, philosophy, arts, history of art, religion, etc.
It is up to reporting units to decide, in which fields of science their R&D activities come mostly under.
Data mentioned in area of technologies and information society are derived from the periodical annual statistical survey on usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) at households and among individuals (natural persons), which was carried out by the Czech Statistical Office in the second quarter of 2006. This survey is based on a similar survey running in the EU Member States (Community Household Survey on ICT Usage in households and among individuals 2006) and it followed the surveys from 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002.
The survey was carried out within the LFSS, which enabled connection with socio-demographic characteristics of persons in individual households. It is a quantity survey: the sample comprised almost 5,000 households and 10,000 persons aged 10+.
Personal computer (PC) includes all types of personal computers, i.e.: desktop computers, laptops and palmtops.
Purchasing via Internet – ordering of goods or services in an electronic way via the Internet (websites). A decision to buy on the basis of information obtained from the Internet does not mean purchase via the Internet, yet. On-line ordering of goods or services in an electronic way via the Internet must take place.
Other information on statistics on science and technology, and information society is available (subgroup 96 – Research and Development and 97 – Information Society) .
