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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2013 Citizenry participation within public institutions and processes: a community's police?

This paper will grapple with some of the challenges related to the meaningful realisation of citizen participation in democratic governance,...

2012 An assessment of skills development interventions in South Africa: work-based skills upgrading in firms in the public and private sectors

In this section, we consider the challenges of skills upgrading at firm level, both public and private sector. Pundy Pillay, Andrea Juan and...

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2012 An assessment of skills development interventions in South Africa: work-based skills upgrading in firms in the public and private sectors: skills planning dead in the water without data

'Improving skills planning' is the very last sub-section of the Department of Higher Education and Training's (DHET) Green Paper for Post-Sc...

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