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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: VIOLENCE

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2015 Responding to men

Despite a body of work on male perpetrators experiences of intervention programmes, little is known about the intersubjective aspects of the...

2015 Marikana: a crisis of legitimacy in the institutions that form the foundations of South Africa's 1994 post-apartheid political settlement

This essay argues that the violent explosion at Marikana is an indication that ordinary South Africans are rapidly losing faith in the democ...

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2014 Physical fighting and social correlates among in-school adolescents in the Caribbean

The aim of this study was to determine estimates of the prevalence and social correlates of physical fighting among adolescents in Caribbean...

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2014 Violence in Khayelitsha: finding a way out

Khayelitsha in the Western Cape remains a violent place, with a murder rate well above the national average. Vanessa Barolsky tries to make ...

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