TABLE 1.
Characterization of the sample included in the study (3,345 respondents).
| General (%, n) | Male (%, n) | Female (%, n) | |
| Gender | 31.6 (1057) | 68.4 (2288) | |
| Race/Ethnicity§ | |||
| White | 75.9 (2540) | 73.8 (780) | 76.9 (1760) |
| Black | 18.1 (606) | 18.9 (200) | 17.7 (406) |
| Asian | 1.7 (58) | 1.1 (12) | 2.0 (46) |
| Indigenous | 0.2 (7) | 0.2 (2) | 0.2 (5) |
| ND* | 4.0 (134) | 5.9 (63) | 3.1 (71) |
| With children | 70.7 (2366) | 67.6 (715) | 72.2 (1651) |
| Origin (Brazilian Region)+ | |||
| North | 6.2 (208) | 6.3 (67) | 6.1 (140) |
| Northeast | 15.4 (515) | 16.4 (173) | 14.9 (342) |
| Center-west | 8.7 (292) | 10.0 (106) | 8.1 (186) |
| Southeast | 42.7 (1428) | 38.9 (411) | 44.4 (1016) |
| South | 27.0 (904) | 28.4 (300) | 26.4 (604) |
| Academic Area€ | |||
| Agricultural Sciences | 7.1 (237) | 8.8 (93) | 6.3 (144) |
| Biological Sciences | 20.9 (698) | 19.9 (210) | 21.3 (488) |
| Engineering | 5.2 (175) | 6.9 (73) | 4.5 (102) |
| Exact and Earth Sciences | 17.6 (589) | 26.7 (282) | 13.4 (307) |
| Health Sciences | 19.1 (639) | 12.7 (134) | 22.1 (505) |
| Humanities | 12.7 (426) | 9.7 (103) | 14.1 (323) |
| Linguistics, Language and Arts | 4.4 (149) | 2.8 (30) | 5.2 (119) |
| Multidisciplinary | 3.4 (113) | 3.2 (34) | 3.4 (78) |
| Social Sciences | 9.6 (320) | 9.3 (98) | 9.7 (222) |
General data are shown as percentages (%) of the total number of respondents.
Gender data are shown as percentages (%) of respondents of the same gender (male or female).
The total number of respondents from each category is presented as (n).
§ Terminology follows the official Brazilian census and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Race/ethnicity categories are based on a skin color continuum ranging from very fair to very dark skin. We adopt official IBGE categories in the questionnaires: branca (White), preta (Black), parda, amarela (Yellow: translated as Asian) and indigena (Indigeneous). In Brazil, there is a common distinction between people who identify as Black (dark-skin Black people) and parda (light-skin Black people). In all results presented in the report, the Black category refers to both IBGE categories (preta and parda) together.
*Prefer not to disclose.
+The percentage of researchers for each region in Brazil, according to the last Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Census, is 6.3% (North), 20.5% (Northeast), 7.7% (Center-west), 42.5% (Southeast), and 22.9% (South).
€Academic area nomenclature according to the CNPq classification. According to this, “Exact and Earth Sciences” include math, statistics, computer sciences, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geosciences, and oceanography.