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. Response rate = 100 x [Responses / (Responses + Non-responses - 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 [280/(280 + 187 - 32)] = 64.4% Not-for-profit sector response rate = 100 x [34/(34 + 20 - 4)] = 68.0% Government sector response rate = 100 x [42/(42 + 26 - 8)] = 70.0% Science Councils sector response rate = 100 x [11/(11 + 0 - 0)] = 100.0% Higher Education sector (Public) response rate = 100 x [20/(20 + 6 - 0)] = 76.9% Higher Education sector (Private) response rate = 100 x [5/(5+ 1 - 0)] =83.3% Overall survey response rate = 100 x [392/(392 + 240 - 44)] = 66.7%