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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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2016 Shutting the gates in South Africa: national identification and popular attitudes towards closing borders to immigration
More than a hundred thousand people crisscross South Africa's international borders annually. Public opinion on this cross-border migration ...
2015 Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: an individual-level analysis of attitudes towards immigrants in South Africa
African states are often characterised as low trust societies. Could a deficiency of social capital explain prejudice towards immigrants in ...
2015 Intolerable cruelty: anti-immigrant sentiment in KwaZulu-Natal
What is the xenophobic sentiment that underlies the recent violent attacks on foreign shop-owners throughout eThekwini, resulting in several...
2015 Who is a foreigner in South Africa?
It is not only people from outside South Africa who are regarded as 'foreigners'. Hangwelani (Hope) Magidimisha, a Tshivenda-speaker from Li...