National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2006-07: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated

RnD 2006-07 Aggregated

National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2006-07: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated

Human Sciences Research Council. National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2006-07: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated. [Data set]. RnD 2006-07 Aggregated. Version 2.0. Pretoria South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council, Department of Science and Technology [producers] 2006. Human Sciences Research Council [distributor] 2020. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.14749/1568792282.

This data set contains the aggregated data on the R&D expenditure per province by Business, Government, Higher Education, Not-for-Profit Organisations and Science Councils. R&D expenditure is aggregated by five survey sectors across nine provinces in South Africa.

Subsequent to the dissemination of version 1 of the 2006-07 data files, some of the information has been anonymised and the revised data files are disseminated as Version 2.

The National Survey of Research and Experimental Development (R&D) Survey collects data under strict confidentiality. Aggregate data are used primarily to inform policy and strategic planning at a national level. The National R&D Survey 2006/07 collected primary data from five survey sectors:

• Business sector, made up of companies, business associations and state owned enterprises.
• Government sector, made up of national and provincial departments, research institutes and museums.
• Higher Education Institutions sector, made up of universities, universities of technology, technikons and private higher education institutions. Some limited supplementary data from HEMIS was used in this sector.
• Not-for-Profit Organisations (NPO) sector.
• Science Councils sector.

Some general organisational information was collected. The survey however focused on Human Resources and Financial data relating to in-house R&D conducted on the national territory of South Africa.

In-house R&D personnel categories included:

• Researchers
• Technicians directly supporting R&D
• Other personnel directly supporting R&D
• Qualifications, gender and race
• Full-time-equivalents (FTE) on R&D

In-house R&D expenditure categories included:

• Capital expenditure, labour costs and other current expenditure.
• Type of R&D (basic research, strategic basic research, applied research, and experimental development)
• Provincial location
• Sources of funds
• Research fields (fields of science)
• Socio-Economic Objective
• Industry of R&D (Business sector only)

The key users of the data and findings include government departments, especially DST and the OECD who use survey indicators in their annual time-series publication on Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI).

Ad hoc requests for data are also accommodated and inform academic papers, reports and other outputs.

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross section

01 APR 2005 - 31 MAR 2006

January 2005 to December 2005 for Higher Education.

Primary data

Micro level data

Quantitative

Relational database

2006

2.0

South Africa

National Territory of South Africa.

Provincial data.

Business Sector: 677 R&D performing Business enterprise units, made up of companies, business associations and state owned enterprises.

Government Sector: 83 Government R&D performing Entities made up of national and provincial departments, research institutes and museums.

Higher Education Sector: Higher Education made up of 15 Universities, 1 Technikons,7 Universities of Science & Technology and 1 private higher education institutions, ultimately comprising 44 individual R&D performing units including faculties, departments and administrative areas etc.

Not-for-Profit Organisations (NPO) Sector: 30 NPOs.

Science Councils Sector: 9 Science Councils made up of 24 individual R&D performing units.

Note.: The numbers of units refer to non-nil responses (i.e., entities with in-house R&D performed).

The National R&D Survey 2006/07 collected primary data from five survey sectors:

1. Business sector, made up of companies, business associations and state owned enterprises.
2. Government sector, made up of national and provincial departments, research institutes and museums.
3. Higher Education Institutions sector, made up of universities, universities of technology, technikons and private higher education institutions. Some limited supplementary data from HEMIS was used in this sector.
4. Not-for-Profit Organisations (NPO) sector.
5. Science Councils sector.

Entities in the above mentioned sectors who do not have in-house R&D performed.

01 AUG 2006 - 29 JUN 2007

Email survey
Face-to-face interview
Postal survey
Telephone interview
A postal survey was administered with some face-to-face and telephonic interviews conducted. Email survey questionnaires were also used. All sectors also accepted some partially complete questionnaires as long as core essential data was contained. Also an embedded User Guide was used in all sector questionnaires.

The sampling methods of the various sectors are briefly outlined below: Business Sector: a purposive sampling procedure was employed whereby all known and likely R&D performers were targeted. Government Sector: was surveyed using a census approach. All national and provincial government departments, research institutions and museums performing R&D were included. Higher Education Sector: institutions, namely universities, universities of technology and technikons were included through a census survey. Not-for-Profit Organisations (NPO) Sector: a purposive sampling procedure was employed whereby all known and likely R&D performers were targeted. Science Councils Sector: were surveyed using a census approach.

No weighting was used. Only aggregate data reported.

Kahn, (Prof. M.)

Blankley, William (Mr W.O.); Vlotman, Natalie (Ms NA); Sotashe, Prudence (Ms P.N.); Sikaka, Weziwe (Ms W.S.); Sibindlana, Tembu (Ms M.P.); Rumbelow, Julien (Mr J.J.); Reddy, Michelle (Ms V.); Parker, Saahier (Dr S); Mongo, Bongie (Ms N.L.); Molotja, Neo (Dr N); Heath, Karen (Ms K.E.); Gastrow, Michael (Dr M); Burns, Anthony (Mr A.G.)

Department of Science and Technology

Department of Science and Technology
Human Sciences Research Council

Human Sciences Research Council

2020-03-09

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