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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2021 A Praetorian sensibility?: the making of the humanities and social sciences through the tangled histories of the HSRC and the Humanities Faculty in Pretoria

I begin, then, with the position that the institutions the University of Pretoria, the Bureau and the HSRC have complex histories. They were...

2021 The De Lange Report of 1981: A 'geology'

The De Lange Report, officially known as the Report of the Main Committee of the HSRC Investigation into Education, was submitted to the Cab...

2021 The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals who have shaped SA's history

Globally, countries have consulted their best scientific experts to mitigate the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, many fai...

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2021 Impervious to policy: revisiting the HSRC's heterodox economic approach to South Africa's persistent structural complexities

This chapter looks at the economics research that was conducted by the HSRC over two decades and across four previous iterations of the econ...