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:

Or use the search facility below, to browse through the HSRC's research outputs:

Research data: HERITAGE

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

2021 UNESCO World Heritage Convention and the diversity of cultural contexts within the sustainable development paradigm

In 2015, the State Parties to the World Heritage Convention adopted the UNESCO Policy Document for the Integration of a Sustainable Developm...

Download this report

2020 In whose name?: on statues, place and pain in South Africa

This chapter asks how people make sense of their interaction with place and so-called objects of cultural heritage and illustrates why, in a...

1980 Unpacking the cultural heritage of the amaMpondo in the Eastern Cape

Cultural heritage, this chapter's focus, is defined as those attributes, behavioural patterns, lifestyles, social structures and norms liter...

Download this report