text: 95. Concerning the latter questions , only the United States replied that it had a price index for military research and development , while the United Kingdom stated that it had one for civilian research and development, Both respondents explained in their replies the methods of constructing their indexes , which turned out to be based on input prices for three major expenditure categories, namely, personnel, eauipment and other expenditures. The remaining countries replied that they had neither military nor civilian research and development price indexes. / . . . . A/40/421 English Page 36 2. Treatment of data 96. The distribution of military research and development expenditures among the military and civilian sectors is shown in table 6, while the distribution of such expenditures in the military sector among different cost categories is shown in table 7. Concerning the Bame distribution in the civilian sector, only the United State8 could give some information stating that 25 per cent of the expenditures in this sector were for personnel which was significantly less than in the military research and development Sector. 97. Concerning the distribution of personnel expenditures among different categories of personnel, the’two responding countries, Norway and Sweden, indicated a separate category for engineers while they placed researchers, scientists, support personnel and administrators in the 8ame category. 98. A larger collection of data on a number of specifically selected research and development item8 would have been feasible if the Group had had more time to devote to this purpose. The Group did, however, use the information obtained from the contact8 in response to thie first questionnaire as a basis for selecting a number of items and group8 of Items within the operating cost category and for applying appropriate weight8 to all theee items for the purpose of constructing - in a 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the economic aspects of research and development, specifically the allocation of funds and the distribution of personnel expenditures. It seems to be focused on the economic aspects of science and technology, rather than the scientific or technological aspects themselves.