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: NATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
2013 Skilling for employment and employability: the success of learnerships and apprenticeships under the National Skills Development Strategy II
Learnerships and apprenticeships as skills development mechanisms thus provide a useful case study to investigate the complexity and conditi...
2012 Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: the NSF as a mechanism to address skills development of the unemployed in South Africa
The general approach to the study was to conduct a statistical overview of the information on training opportunities contained in the Nation...
Download this report2012 Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: scarce skills information dissemination: a study of the SETAs in South Africa
The broad aim of this study is to evaluate how information on scarce skills is disseminated by SETAs to various roleplayers in the economy, ...
Download this report2012 Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: the impact of work experience grants on learner placement: an investigation into the measurement of the effectiveness of work experience grants
Work experience grants within the National Skills Development Strategy Phase II represent one type of intervention that aims to promote the ...
Download this report