phd {robCompositions}

PhD students in the EU

Description

PhD students in Europe based on the standard classification system splitted by different kind of studies (given as percentages).

Format

A data set on 32 compositions and 11 variables.

Details

Due to unknown reasons the rowSums of the percentages is not always 100.

• country country of origin (German)

• countryEN country of origin (English)

• country2 country of origin, 2-digits

• total total phd students (in 1.000)

• male male phd students (in 1.000)

• female total phd students (in 1.000)

• technical phd students in natural and technical sciences

• socio-economic-low phd students in social sciences, economic sciences and law sciences

• human phd students in human sciences including teaching

• health phd students in health and life sciences

• agriculture phd students in agriculture

Source

Eurostat

References

Hron, K. and Templ, M. and Filzmoser, P. (2010) Imputation of missing values for compositional data using classical and robust methods. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol 54 (12), pages 3095-3107.

Examples

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