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Last updated: 27 March 2013

Objectives

Human resources are recognised as being key to the creation, commercialisation and diffusion of innovation. Among them, doctorate holders are not only the most qualified in terms of educational attainment, but also those who are specifically trained to conduct research. Not much is known however about their career and mobility patterns on the labour market. It is with this in mind that the OECD launched a collaborative project with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Eurostat aimed at developing internationally comparable indicators on the careers and mobility of doctorate holders.  An expert group with representatives from national statistical bodies was formed to develop the technical components of the project and start compiling data at national level.

Sponsorship

In 2011-12, the project benefits from funding of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission as part of the KnowINNO grant 257078.

The final conference of the KnowINNO project on Careers of Doctorate Holders was held on 3 December 2012 in Brussels.

• Conference progamme

• Conference report

Project results - 2010 data collection

• Key findings of the OECD-KnowINNO Project on the Careers of Doctorate Holders  

• 2009 CDH indicators (click here for a printer-friendly version).
   

Technical guidelines

• Mapping Careers and Mobility of Doctorate Holders: Draft Guidelines, Model Questionnaire and Indicators, 3rd edition (STI Working Paper 2012/7)

• CDH output indicators (xls tables), 2012
    

Results from previous data collections

• Careers of Doctorate Holders: Employment and Mobility Patterns (STI Working Paper 2010/4)
   
• Labour Market Characteristics and International Mobility of Doctorate Holders (STI Working Paper 2007/2)
   
• 2006 CDH indicators

Key HRST indicators, STI Scoreboard 2011

• New doctorate graduates
   
• Careers of doctorate holders
   
• Science and technology occupations
   
• Researchers
   
• International mobility
   
• Mobility at the workplace
   

Further links on Careers of Doctorate Holders

• National Science Foundation work
   
• Statistics Canada work
    
• Spanish National Institute for Statistics survey results on human resources in science and technology
   
• Statistics Netherlands survey results
   
• Report on the Norwegian collection of data on CDH
   
• Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia survey results
    
• Turkish Statistical Institute survey results
    
• "Social Science Doctorate Holders: Who are they? Where are they working?", article in the UNESCO/International Social Science Council World Social Science Report (Chapter 8, pp. 295-298)
   
• Article by the French Centre for Strategic Analysis (in French)