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Overview

  1. Total participants
  2. Repartition per country
  3. Visual representation of countries repartition
  4. Date of participation
  5. Difference with the previous year
  6. Subsetting

This page gives an overview of the participants per country. From where they come from and when they started the survey. It also gives the difference with the previous survey year for the countries that participated in 2018.

Alongside this information, it also subset the relevant participants for future analysis. Only the participants that have finished at least the first section and the ones that report to develop program for their work, or lead research developers, are kept.

Total participants

There were a total of 1324 in the survey.

Repartition per country

We developed specific questions for the following countries:

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • South Africa
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

We can see the distribution of participants among the countries as follows:

Country Count
Germany 258
United Kingdom 176
United States 161
France 77
Netherlands 66
Finland 58
Australia 33
New Zealand 28
Sweden 22
Belgium 17
Norway 12
Canada 11
Italy 11
Denmark 9
Spain 8
Switzerland 7
Argentina 5
Austria 4
Greece 3
Israel 3
Luxembourg 3
Portugal 3
Afghanistan 2
Brazil 2
Iceland 2
Poland 2
South Africa 2
Ukraine 2
Chile 1
Colombia 1
Czech Republic 1
Egypt 1
India 1
Japan 1
Liechtenstein 1
Mexico 1
Pakistan 1
Puerto Rico 1
Saint Barthélemy 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Singapore 1
Uruguay 1
Åland Islands 1

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Visual representation of countries repartition

Date of participation

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Difference with the previous year

Several countries did the survey in the previous 2018 survey - here are the difference in the amount of participants:

  2018 2022 Difference between 2018 and 2022
United Kingdom 237 176 -61
Australia 99 33 -66
Germany 333 258 -75
New Zealand 37 28 -9
United States 147 161 14
World 55 589 534
South Africa 23 2 -21
Canada 12 11 -1
Netherlands 54 66 12

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Subsetting

Selecting valid participants only

On the total of participants, we only want the participants that code software during their work. We had a specific question for this purpose. We asked the participants if they are writing software or if they are leading a group of software developers. Each of these questions had the possibility of Yes/No answer. Here the exact wording of the questions:

  • Do you write software for academic research as part of your job
  • Does the majority of your role comprise leading a group of software developers or RSEs?

We will only select the participants who answered Yes to at least one question.

  Write software Lead a team of software developers At least one of the two
(2018, ‘Yes’) 956 166 995
(2018, ‘No’) 41 787 2
(2022, ‘Yes’) 940 184 997
(2022, ‘No’) 59 766 327

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For any further analysis, we remove the participants that answered ‘No’ at both of the question to only keep the ones that have work involving software development for both year to ensure a proper comparison. This brings the number of participants analysed to:

  Participants in 2018 Participants in 2022
0 995 997

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