• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (NUTS - 2013)

• LABOUR FORCE /ACTIVE POPULATION:  All persons aged 15 or over who, during the reference period, made up the available labour force for the production of economic goods and services (employed and unemployed).
• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
• RESEARCH:  Individual in research and development activities who directs or carries out work aimed at creating knowledge and/or designing products, processes, methods or systems.
• RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:  All systematically performed creative work aimed at expanding knowledge, including the knowledge of humankind, culture and society, as well as the use of this stock of knowledge in new applications.

Researchers at full-time equivalent/ Active population*100