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enrolment and 12a: legal status) or as time consuming (4a: enrolment by age and level of degree,
14b: graduates in the region, 6d: income from research contracts, 11a: public income and 13a:
number of concerts). The scores on indicator 6b (number of patents applications), 6c (licensing
income), 7a (international and foreign degree seeking students) and 7b (exchange students) differ
remarkably between the two approaches.
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Figure 6: Percentage of total time needed to report data; average plus and minus one standard
error
16%
14%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
1a time
1b time
2a time
3a time
3b time
4a time
5a time
6a time
6b time
6c time
6d time
7a time
7b time
7e time
7d time
8a time
9a time
9b time
10a time
10b time
10c time
11a time
11b time
12a time
13a time
13b time
14a time
14b time
14c time
14d time
Ease to collect
The time needed to collect and report the information is only one aspect of feasibility. Respondents
may perceive the effort needed to fi nd the information differently. Therefore the respondents were
asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement ‘The information is easy to fi nd’.
There are two groups of indicators. The fi rst group comprises those indicators for which more
than 60% of the respondents reported that they strongly agree with the statement. The second
group comprises indicators where at least 20% of the respondents disagreed (strongly) with the
statement.
There is a signifi cant overlap between the lists of ‘feasible’ indicators of table 1 and table 2 and
between the lists of less feasible indicators in both tables. The only exception is indicator 3b
(professional programs).
Table 8: Opinions on the statement ‘information is easy to find’
60% Strongly agree 20% disagree
1a
3b
1b
4a
2a
6c
7e
6d
9a
7d
9b
8a
10a
14b
10b
14c
10c
14d
11a
11b
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