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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2020 Inter-community discourse on the new path to development in Madagascar: a critique

More than 50 years after the attainment of political independence, many African countries, mostly former French colonies, still rely on metr...

2019 Deconstructing the fourth industrial revolution: defining the concept and research agenda

The idea that we are in a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is premised on the observation that technological change is accelerating, that ...

2019 Voice of critical skilled migrants in South Africa: a case study of Gauteng province

This study investigates ways in which South Africa could attract, recruit, retain and integrate critical skilled immigrants into different s...

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2018 System dynamics models for Africa's developmental planning

The present applications of systems thinking in the form of system dynamics had been largely influenced by the contribution of Jay W. Forre...