The indicator shows the percentage shares of internationally mobile women researchers and the percentage shares of internationally mobile men researchers during their early careers (i.e. researchers up to the point of PhD and recognised researchers who have a PhD but are not yet fully independent). In this context, ‘internationally mobile’ researchers are those who during their PhD studies have moved for three months or more to a country other than the one where they completed or will obtain their PhD.
The indicator covers researchers in all fields of education. The country of the researcher is the country where they completed or will complete their PhD. Weighting was applied to increase the representativeness of sample.
The data was collected from the 2021, 2018, and 2015 She Figures publications. These publications investigate the level of progress made towards gender equality in research &innovation (R&I) in Europe. She figures is the main source of pan‑European, comparable statistics on the representation of women and men amongst PhD graduates, researchers and academic decision‑makers.
The She Figures publications, in turn, have collected data from the Mobility Patterns and Career Paths of the EU Researchers (MORE4, MORE3, and MORE2) Surveys (European Commission, 2013 and 2017). The surveys apply a robust methodology ensuring high quality of the results and data presented here.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |