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They represent a mix of engineers and economists. Of those with higher quali-
fications the majority are economists; the rest are engineers, though there are a
few sociologists and psychologists. The long-term plan for 1980 intends to
increase by IOO,OOO the number of those coming out of higher education with
an economic training. This trend seems to be general in Eastern Europe, where
building up ‘information de base’ in and around economics has been made a
priority.
POLAND. Technico-scientific hinterland of government and industry: number and level of
workers (1965)
Ph.D.s
Master’s?
Other graduate workers in
the basic activities
Part-time
809
25,069 25,878
22,796
1,518 24,314
Engineer-technicians 34,953
Others - 18,285
53,238
Total 103,430
? Takes at least five years.
30. Passing from the ‘technico-scientific hinterland’ of operating organiza-
tions to the Academy and institutions of higher education, we were able to
separate those working in the empirical social sciences (including general
linguistics) from others with backgrounds in law, philosophy, history and lan-
guages. The table below shows their distribution between the Academy and
higher education. The majority are Ph.D.s, though a number of masters is
included who hold junior research or teaching appointments. While Academy
POLAND. Number of establishments and qualified (Ph.D. or near equivalent) staff in the
academy and in higher education (1965)
Demography
Linguistics
Social anthropology
Psychology
Sociology
Economics
Academy
Estab- Staff
lishment
-
2 21
I 2ot
3
I2
3 87
2 34
University and Total
higher schools -
Estab- Staff Establishment
lishment
~
8 29 8
6 24 8
15 29 16
20 119 23
I5 J 52 18
106 600 I08
Staff
29
45
49
131
239
634
Total I1 I74 170 953 181 1,127
t Excludes a large number of ethnographers not regarded as social anthropologists.