Table 3.
Numbers of researchers in Malaysia from five ethnic groups, 1982–1984, 1992–1994 and 2002–2004, and their total fractional contributions: all fields of science
| Period | Researcher names | Contributions (Fractional count) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHI | EUR | IND | MAL | OTH | ALL | CHI | EUR | IND | MAL | OTH | ALL | |
| Numbers | ||||||||||||
| 82–84 | 263 | 148 | 108 | 138 | 35 | 692 | 237.9 | 159.6 | 84.7 | 98.2 | 31.6 | 612 |
| 92–94 | 356 | 155 | 181 | 458 | 136 | 1286 | 299.9 | 90.8 | 115.2 | 282.8 | 75.3 | 864 |
| 02–04 | 812 | 326 | 293 | 1277 | 316 | 3024 | 527.3 | 166.4 | 180.1 | 868.5 | 145.7 | 1888 |
| Percent | ||||||||||||
| 82–84 | 38.0 | 21.4 | 15.6 | 19.9 | 5.1 | 38.9 | 26.1 | 13.8 | 16.0 | 5.2 | ||
| 92–94 | 27.7 | 12.1 | 14.1 | 35.6 | 10.6 | 34.7 | 10.5 | 13.3 | 32.7 | 8.7 | ||
| 02–04 | 26.9 | 10.8 | 9.7 | 42.2 | 10.4 | 27.9 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 46.0 | 7.7 | ||