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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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Research data: POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
2013 Shouldering the burden: gender attitudes towards balancing work and family
The South African workplace has changed in recent decades as increasingly more women enter the labour market. The greater economic empowerme...
2013 Poverty and inequality: a threat to a socially inclusive rainbow nation
A series of legislative and policy reforms since 1994 have aimed to bring about solidarity and a safer, caring, more equal and harmonious na...
Download this report2013 Constitutional democracy in South Africa: fanciful ideal or tangible reality?
South Africa's constitution has been hailed the world over as truly revolutionary, yet over the past 19 years, the country has struggled to ...
Download this report2013 Towards a 20 year review: basic and post school education
Grade R formal provision began after 1994 in South Africa. The significant role of Grade R in improving learners' experience of success in t...
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