Government Budget Allocations for R&D in Environment

Government Budget Allocations for R&D (GBARD). GBARD data are measuring government support to research and development (R&D) activities, and thereby provide information about the priority Governments give to different public R&D funding activities.

GBARD data are compiled using the guidelines laid out in the OECD Guidelines for collecting and reporting data on research and experimental development - Frascati Manual, OECD, 2015 (See related identifiers). 

GBARD data are broken down by:

  - Socio-economic objectives (SEOs) in accordance to the Nomenclature for the analysis and comparison of scientific programmes and budget. This dataset uses the Environment objective.

The missing data are approximated, forecasted and backcasted by country, resulting in 29% bigger complete subset for further analytical use in regression or machine learning models compared to the source dataset  released by Eurostat: GBARD by socioeconomic objectives (NABS 2007)[gba_nabsfin07]