Research data
The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: COVID-19
2020 Rethinking growth-unemployment puzzles in the COVID-19 recession: contextualising SA's macroeconomic policy options
The total value of goods and services produced inside South Africas borders fell steeply in the last two quarters of 2019, resulting in a sh...
Download this report2020 Cities at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic: density matters
Urban density is an important consideration in the coronavirus pandemic, but knee-jerk reactions by the government, companies and citizens a...
Download this report2020 Lived realities of urban peripheries: building infrastructures of change
Apartheid was enacted spatially through infrastructural investment to support institutionalised racism and class inequality. Post-apartheid ...
Download this report2020 Circular migration during COVID-19: reflecting on the social and cultural significance of 'home'
The arrival of COVID-19 in South Africa has been like putting dye in water; moving across the surface as flow determines spread, it leaves c...
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