DOI: 10.14749/1560431124
title: National Research and Experimental Development Survey (R&D) 2014-15: All provinces in South Africa - Aggregated

description: Description: 
 This data set contains data on the R&D expenditure by province, type of R&D, research fields, socioeconomic objectives, sources of funds and province. R&D personnel data is also included. 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.

 Subsequent to the dissemination of version 1 of the 2013-14 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 2014/15 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)
description: Email survey
description: Face-to-face interview
description: Postal survey
description: Telephone interview
description: The National R&D Survey 2014/15 collected primary data from five survey 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): Higher education institutions, namely the 21 universities (and academic hospitals) and 15 technikons.
 
 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:

 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 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 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-R&D performer, return to sender, untraceable, etc.

 Business sector response rate = 100 x [373/(373 + 60 - 48)] = 96.9%

 Not-for-profit sector response rate = 100 x [46/(46 + 34 - 11)] = 66.7%

 Government sector response rate = 100 x [70/(70 + 57 - 11)] = 60.3%

 Science Councils sector response rate = 100 x [13/(13 + 0 - 0)] = 100.0%

 Higher Education sector (Public) response rate = 100 x [19/(19 + 4 - 0)] = 82.6%

 Higher Education sector (Private) response rate = 100 x [4/(4 + 5 - 0)] = 44.4%

 Overall survey response rate = 100 x [525/(525 + 160 - 70)] = 85.4%