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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2017 "You have to bow right here": heteronormative scripts and intimate partner violence in women
Intimate partner violence is increasingly recognised as occurring not only between heterosexual partners but also in same-sex relationships....
2017 Loneliness: its correlates and associations with health risk behaviours among university students in 25 countries
The aim of this cross-national study was to assess factors associated with loneliness and to determine the degree to which loneliness affect...
2016 A social network typology and sexual risk-taking among men who have sex with men in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Despite the high prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men in South Africa, very little is known about their lived realities, includ...
2016 Traditional male circumcision: ways to prevent deaths due to dehydration
Deaths of initiates occurring in the circumcision initiation schools are preventable. Current studies list dehydration as one of the underly...