Survey on Research and Development in the public bodies/institutions (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2011

General characteristics  
Contents:
Employees in R&D: number of persons; Employees in R&D: full-time equivalent units; Expenditures for research and development
Analysis units:
Government bodies
Periodicity:
Yearly
EU legislation:
Yes

Survey design  
Type:
Census

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Government bodies
Data collection mode:
Self-administered data collection via electronic transmission
Total units:
464
Respondents:
388

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Adjustement methods to reduce the effect of unit nonresponse on the results; Methods to measure the effect of unit nonresponse on the results; Follow-ups of nonrespondent units/bodies
Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Adjustement methods to reduce the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Recontact of the units
Validation:
Coherence control with previous data of the same survey; Coherence control among indicators of different analysis units of the same survey; Control of influential unit data, strongly contributing to computation of aggregates

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
Serie storiche
Other data bases:
Banca dati Eurostat - Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union)
Press releases:
La ricerca e sviluppo in Italia. Anno 2011
Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
Timeliness of final data:
1 year, 11 months and 8 days