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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: DEMOCRACY
2022 South Africans' social views: 'the real state-of-the-nation indicators?
Since 2003, the political, social and sociocultural views of people living in South Africa have undergone significant shifts. The biggest ch...
Download this report2021 Separation of powers and the dangers of judicial underreach
This chapter takes a closer look at the institutionalisation of the doctrine of separation of powers within the context of South Africa's co...
2021 Delivering democratic developmental state cities in South Africa
Since coming to power in 1994, following the end of formal apartheid in South Africa, the governing African National Congress (ANC), has sta...
2021 Decolonisation as democratisation global insights into the South African experience
Decolonisation as democratisation considers three factors that define the debate in South Africa on the decolonisation of the academy: educa...