DOI: 10.14749/1400829486
title: National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2003-04: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated

description: Description: 
 This data set contains data tables on aggregated R&D Personnel and aggregate R&D expenditure of five survey sectors across multiple categorisations for the years 2003 to 2004.
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 2003/04 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, 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 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
 
 Global origin
 
 Age
 
 Retained / departed staff with reasons
 
 R&D skills deficiencies


 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)
description: Email survey
description: Face-to-face interview
description: Postal survey
description: Telephone interview
description: The universe of R&D performers was divided into the following five sectors: Business enterprises (BUS): The business sector of large, medium and small enterprises, including state-owned companies. Government (GOV): All government departments with an R&D component, government research institutes and museums. Higher education institutions (HEI): Universities, academic hospitals and technikons. Not-for-profit (NPO) institutions. Science councils (SCI):
description: 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 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.