Estimates of research and development personnel in Canada, 1979 to 2002

R&D personnel are drawn from a wide variety of occupations “… from the Nobel prize-winner to the winner's secretary, from the designer of space experiments to the breeder of laboratory animals."1. [...] This level also includes managers and administrators engaged in the planning and management of the scientific and technical aspects of a researcher's work. [...] In Canada with the exception of the Higher education sector, each of the sectors mentioned above are surveyed on an annual basis in order to collect R&D data (both expenditures and personnel). [...] According to the data in Table 1.1, in 2002, 63% of the persons engaged in R&D were researchers, 23% were technicians and 14% were other support staff. [...] The data on persons engaged in R&D in the federal government are taken from the annual survey of the Federal science expenditures and personnel.