Variables and data availability
Consistently with EUROSTAT practices, the staff perimeter in ETER comprises all people with a working contract with the HEI, including researchers and PhD students to the extent they have a working contract. Staff is divided into academic (individuals engaged in teaching and research) and non-academic (technical support, administration). Data are provided in Full Time Equivalents (based on the average working percentage during the reference year) and Head Count (all individuals with a contract the last day of the reference year); FTEs are a more reliable measure of human resources that is less affected by the inclusion of part-time researchers and teachers. Additionally, ETER provides breakdown of academic staff (in HC) by citizenship, gender and field of education and training, as well as the number of professors.
A measure of academic staff in either FTEs or HC is provided for 78% or 2,180 of 2,767 HEIs in the 2014 edition of ETER. This corresponds to coverage of 97% of the enrolled students of the HEIs participating in ETER.
Staff data are fully missing for Austria, Estonia, Iceland and Luxembourg. In addition, Denmark, Montenegro, Slovenia and Romania did not provide any data to the 2014 edition of ETER. Data availability is similar for the breakdown of staff by gender (74%), but much lower by citizenship (55%) and, particularly, for the breakdown by field (only 35% of the HEIs have data).
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