Data and Its Limits
Measuring capacity: the available indicators favour the sector that publishes
Every widely used indicator of research capacity measures visibility, and visibility is distributed unevenly.
Data and Its Limits
What the available data on Vietnamese research can and cannot tell you.
Data and Its Limits
Data and Its Limits
Samples and specimens: agree ownership of what remains before anything is collected
What happens to leftover material after a study ends has been a recurring source of international grievance.
Data and Its Limits
Reporting findings: your framing describes a place, not only a dataset
How results from a particular setting are written up shapes how that setting is understood for years afterwards.
Data and Its Limits
Getting data: administrative and survey data exist, and access takes longer than you plan for
Rich administrative and surveillance datasets exist. The constraint is the access process, not availability.
Data and Its Limits
Reading the data: what the available statistics can and cannot tell you
Most available figures on Vietnamese research measure one sector well and three sectors badly.
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