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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Research data: MIDDLE CLASS
2014 Whither the African middle class in an "Africa rising"?
"Africa rising" is an emerging grand narrative that, whilst occupying the millennial imagination, continues to be the subject of growing med...
2011 Multiple meanings of the middle class in Soweto, South Africa
This study investigated the meanings of middle class amongst those who label themselves middle class. 2559 people were surveyed in Soweto, S...
2007 A contradictory class location?: the African corporate middle class and the burden of race in South Africa
The existing literature on the changing nature of workplaces in South Africa either ignores the role played by the emerging layer of black m...