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
2021 COVID-19 hits poor urban communities hardest
A central feature of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been its uniform, place-blind character. The lockdown was applie...
2021 'Closing the gate' on rural communities: health care during COVID-19
Over the past six months, many have seen the COVID-19 crisis through a metropolitan lens. In the rural Eastern Cape, communities say that th...
2021 Health-care workers: the reluctant heroes?
During the COVID-19 lockdown, for a few minutes each evening, a cacophony of buzzing from vuvuzelas, clinking from spoons beating on pots an...
Download this report2021 Viral life: Covid-19's destabilisation of our thinking
The question of life is and has been one of the most important and keenly contested questions of the modern era. What constitutes life? When...