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: SOCIAL ATTITUDES SURVEY
2010 Winters of discontent?: attitudes towards service delivery
This chapter uses the 2004 and 2005 SASAS data to draw out and compare social and political attitudes since 2004, in particular examining ci...
2010 South Africans' attitudes towards the environment
The intention of this chapter is to test if demographic factors, internal factors or external factors affect environmental concern, as well ...
2010 Fear factor: perceptions of safety in South Africa
This chapter begins by briefly and critically reflecting on the limitations associated with measuring fear of crime and describing the data ...
2010 Facing the nation: South Africa's most important challenges
In this article BEN ROBERTS, JARE STRUWIG and STEPHEN RULE examine the relative ranking by the South African public of challenges facing our...