National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2007-08: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated

Description:
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 2007-08 data files, some of the information has been anonymised and the revised data files are disseminated as Version 2.
Abstract:
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 2007/08 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).

数据集说明：
本数据集涵盖南非各省按企业、政府、高等教育机构、非营利组织及科学理事会划分的研发（Research and Experimental Development，R&D）支出汇总数据。该数据按照五个调查领域，对南非九个省份的研发支出进行汇总统计。

在2007-2008年数据文件第一版发布后，部分信息已完成匿名化处理，修订后的数据文件以第二版形式发布。

摘要：
全国研发调查（National Survey of Research and Experimental Development）严格遵循保密准则收集数据，其汇总数据主要用于为国家层面的政策制定与战略规划提供参考依据。

2007/2008年全国研发调查从以下五个调查领域收集原始数据：
1. 企业领域：涵盖各类公司、商业协会及国有独资企业。
2. 政府领域：包含国家级与省级政府部门、科研院所及博物馆。
3. 高等教育机构领域：涵盖大学、科技大学、科技学院（technikons）及私立高等教育机构。本领域还使用了来自高等教育管理信息系统（Higher Education Management Information System, HEMIS）的少量补充数据。
4. 非营利组织（Non-Profit Organisations, NPO）领域。
5. 科学理事会领域。

调查收集了部分通用组织信息，但核心聚焦于南非领土范围内开展的内部研发相关的人力资源与财务数据。内部研发人员类别包括：
- 研究人员
- 直接支持研发的技术人员
- 其他直接支持研发的人员
- 学历资质、性别与种族构成
- 研发全时当量（Full-time-equivalents, FTE）

内部研发支出类别包括：
- 资本支出、人力成本及其他经常性支出
- 研发类型（基础研究、战略基础研究、应用研究与试验发展）
- 省份分布
- 资金来源
- 研究领域（科学学科领域）
- 社会经济目标
- 研发所属行业（仅适用于企业领域）

该数据及研究成果的核心使用者包括政府部门，尤其是南非科学技术部（Department of Science and Technology, DST）与经合组织（Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD）——后者会将调查指标纳入其年度时间序列出版物《主要科学与技术指标》（Main Science and Technology Indicators, MSTI）中。