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: SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL ATTITUDES SURVEY (SASAS)
2010 Affirmative action
Since its introduction 12 years ago, affirmative action has become an increasingly controversial policy to address labour market inequalitie...
2010 Social assistance and dependency in South Africa: an analysis of attitudes to paid work and social grants
Despite the absence of an unemployment grant in South Africa, there is growing concern that other social assistance provision might neverthe...
2008 Age of hope or anxiety?: dynamics of the fear of crime in South Africa
The fear of crime has a negative impact on quality of life at the individual, community and societal levels. This phenomenon, which tends t...
Download this report2007 No evidence of a dependency culture in South Africa
The roots of this debate go back many centuries to notions of the 'undeserving poor' entrenched in pre-welfare state Britain. However, the m...
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