National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2001/02_2020/21: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated

Description:
This data set contains aggregated data from 2001/02 to 2020/12 on R&D expenditure by province, type of R&D, research fields, socioeconomic objectives, sources of funds and personnel data. The data is recorded for each of the following economic sectors of the South African economy: Business, Government, Higher Education, Not-for-Profit Organisations and Science Councils.
Abstract:
The R&D Survey is aggregated time series data collected from 2001/02 to 2020/21 on five primary 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 and private higher education institutions. Some limited supplementary data from HEMIS was used in this sector.

Not-for-Profit Organisations (NPO) sector, made up of non-governmental and not-for-profit entities registered as Section 21 companies

Science Councils sector, made up of the nine science councils established through acts of parliament

Science Councils sector, made up of the nine science councils established through acts of parliament.

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 expenditures.

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

National priority areas of interest

Multidisciplinary R&D

The key users of the data and findings include government departments, especially DSI and the OECD which 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.