DOI: 10.14749/1515674280
title: National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) and other S&T related activities in Agriculture in South Africa 2010-11

description: Description: 
 This data set contains the aggregated data on Agriculture R&D and other S&T indicators by province as well as by government, higher education, not-for-profit organisations and science councils.
Abstract: 
 The National Survey on R&D and other S&T related activities in Agriculture in South Africa collected data from public institutions under strict confidentiality. Aggregate data were used primarily to inform policy and strategic planning at a national level.

 Primary data was primarily collected from public agricultural institutions. The survey was limited to agriculture as a key subsector of the greater economic sector that includes forestry and fisheries. The following institutions were surveyed:

 
 Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (DAFF);
 
 provincial agricultural departments;
 
 science councils;
 
 higher education institutions;
 
 non-profit institutions.


 Some general organisational information was collected. The survey however focused on Human Resources and Financial data relating to in-house R&D as well as other S&T related activities 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).


 The key users of the data and findings include government departments, especially Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (DAFF) and the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)

 Ad hoc requests for data are also accommodated and inform academic papers, reports and other outputs.
description: Face-to-face interview
description: The National R&D Agriculture 2010-11 Survey collected primary data from five survey sectors:

 
 DAFF
 
 Government (GOV): Provincial agricultural departments
 
 Higher education institutions (HEI)
 
 Not-for-profit (NPO): Non-governmental and other organisations formally registered as not-for-profit institutions
 
 Science councils (SCI): the eight science research councils, plus the Africa Institute of South Africa, as established through their individual Acts of Parliament
description: The sampling methods of the various sectors are briefly outlined below:

 Government Sector: was surveyed using a census approach. All national and provincial government departments, research institutions and museums performing agricultural R&D and Science and technology were included.

 Higher Education Sector: institutions, namely universities and universities of technology 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 agricultural and Science and Technology performers were targeted.

 Science Councils Sector: were surveyed using a census approach.

 Response rate = 100 x [Responses/(Responses + Non-responses â Out-of-scopes)], where non-responses include refusals and out-of-scopes include closed down, non-agriculture R&D performer, return to sender, untraceable, etc.

 Government sector response rate = 100 x [6/(6 + 2 - 1)] = 85.7%

 Science Councils sector response rate = 100 x [8/(8 + 0 - 0)] = 100.0%

 Higher Education sector response rate = 100 x [21/(21 + 6 - 4)] = 91.3%

 Other sector response rate = 100 x [2/(2 + 4 - 4)] = 100.0%

 Overall survey response rate = 100 x [37/(37 + 12 - 9)] = 92.5%