Iran Data in Focus - Data Sources and Estimations

Data sources

Primary data were collected through one institutional survey round in 2004-2006 (under the ASTI initiative).

See also Stads, Roozitalab, Beintema, and Aghajani (2008). www.asti.cgiar.org/pdf/IranCR.pdf

Estimation procedures

• For a number of agencies, research staff and expenditure data were missing for certain years. These have been interpolated or in a few cases extrapolated.
• Expenditures for the higher-education agencies are estimates based on the average expenditures per researcher for the government agencies.

For general ASTI data procedures and methodology, please visit www.asti.cgiar.org/methodology.