Migration in South Africa 2001-2002

South Africa, 2001 - 2002

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Reference ID

ZAF_2001_MSA_v01_M

Producer(s)

Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

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Created on

Aug 26, 2013

Last modified

May 07, 2014

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_2001_MSA_v01_M

Title

Migration in South Africa 2001-2002

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	ZAF

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Series Information

This survey forms part of a comprehensive study by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on people’s movements, especially within the borders of South Africa, and particularly on the reasons why some people move, and why others do not. The survey has been necessitated by the profound lack of knowledge in South Africa on this issue.

Abstract

During 1999 the HSRC embarked on a self-funded multidisciplinary research project on the causes of migration in South Africa. The main purpose of the project was to analyse census and other secondary data and to undertake the necessary surveys with a view to determining the importance of economic and non-economic factors in the explanation of migration trends in South and southern Africa. The study highlighted the need for “purpose-made” data for the analysis of migration causes and patterns, which would be addressed to a large extent by sample surveys dealing specifically also with the social and psychological aspects of migration. To help address these issues a series of surveys was envisaged. The first of these would be aimed mainly at testing the utility of various items that would provide the required data for the migration research. A preliminary (initial) questionnaire survey among 911 households was was undertaken during the period 4 April to 25 June 2000 and the main survey was conducted in 2001-2002.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Units of analysis were households and individuals

Version

Version Description

Version 01: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution

Version Date

2002

Scope

Notes

The survey collected data on age, gender, level of education, marital status, migration, use of health services, economic activity, and self-employment.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
migration [14.3]	CESSDA

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National coverage

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data was suburb in the selected areas

Universe

The survey covered households in South Africa

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name
Human Sciences Research Council

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The 2001-2002 survey was based on a stratified, clustered random (complex) sampling design. The explicit strata used in the sampling design were the following: (a) census-based population group (African, coloured, Indian or white); (b) metropolitan/non-metropolitan location; (c) whether a so-called spatial development (SDI) area or not, and (d) census-based locality type (rural/urban). In non-metropolitan areas an implicit stratification of local government level (city, other local municipality or district municipality) was also used. Clustering took the form of randomly selecting (using systematic sampling) six households in each of the selected census enumerator areas (EAs) across the different strata.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

After a preliminary survey was undertaken in 2000 to evaluate the validity and potential reliability of 179 possible scale items for the questionnaire, with a view to reducing these items to an absolute minimum for the purpose of the main (2001/02) survey. The results of the initial survey, as well as provisional findings from an analyses of census data and other secondary data sources were used to finalise the questionnaire to be used in the main survey. The design was largely based on the questionnaire used in the initial survey, sans those items deemed not significant for the construction of scale items.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2001-05	2002-10

Access policy

Access conditions

Licensed dataset, accessible under conditions. At least one copy of any published work or report based in whole or part on the dataset should be deposited with the South African Data Archive (SADA).

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. Migration in South Africa 2001-2002. Ref. ZAF_2001_MSA_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://sada.nrf.ac.za/ahdetails.asp?catalognumber=0138 on [date].

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL
South African Data Archive (SADA)	National Research Foundation

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
DataFirst Helpdesk	University of Cape Town	support@data1st.org
World Bank Microdata Library		microdata@worldbank.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2001_MSA_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	DDI Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2012-02-28

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 02 (August 2013). Edited version based on Version 1.0 DDI (ddi-zaf-datafirst-msa-2001-2002-v1) that was done by DataFirst.

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