Good question... very good question. There's lots, certainly, but that feels too unscientific. Is there a way to estimate the number of RSEs in the world? That's the point of this very quick investigation.
- association-members.csv
- Members of the UK RSE Association when it closed in July 2020
- global_researchers.csv
- Number of researchers in different countries. From the OECD website
- Downloaded on 19 October 2020.
- hesa_number_of_researchers_uk.csv
- 'Staff numbers by HE provider'. From the HESA website
- This data is messy. You're expecting just the data, but you get the data + extra summaries of the data that seems to be used for the responsive viewing of the data on the HESA website.
- Downloaded on 15 October 2020
- oecd_country_codes.csv
- A list of all the countries and short country codes used to make the OECD data more readable. From the ISO website.
- Downloaded on 16 October 2020.
- population.csv
- The population of different countries. From the OECD website
- Downloaded on 19 October 2020.
- research_spending.csv
- OECD data on the Gross domestic spending on R&DTotal, Million US dollars, 2018 – 2019 across different countries. From the OECD website.
- Downloaded 19 October 2020.
- rse_groups.csv
- The size of 25 UK RSE Groups.
- Collected via interview by Simon Hettrick in January 2020.
- rse_like_jobs.csv
- Data from a currently not-shared project investigating the number of RSE-like jobs in the UK comprising the fraction of jobs that are RSE-like from 2014 to 2020.
- Downloaded 15 October 2020
- salary.csv
- Average salary in different countries. From OECD website
I was asked to do a talk for SORSE. I chose to do it on the number of RSEs in the world, because I thought it'd be fun. It was. Apart from some of the data identification/cleaning.
The slides are on my Slides account.