R: PhD students in the EU

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## 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

    data(phd)
    str(phd)

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