This data set contains the aggregated data for 2011-12 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 2011-12 data files, some of the information has been anonymised and the revised data files are disseminated as Version 2.