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School Register of Needs Survey 1996

South Africa, 1996 - 1997
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Reference ID
ZAF_1996_SRNS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Human Science Research Council
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Jan 09, 2013
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Identification

Survey ID Number
ZAF_1996_SRNS_v01_M
Title
School Register of Needs Survey 1996
Country/Economy
Name Country code
South Africa zaf
Study type
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Abstract
The Department of Education commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to conduct a national survey on the locality and other information linked to all schools in South Africa.
Kind of Data
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Unit of Analysis
Schools

Version

Version Description
v1.1: Edited dataset for use in DataFirst research data centre only
Version Date
1997
Version Notes
The original version of the School Register of Needs Survey was obtained by DataFirst at an unknown date between the original release and February 2012. This version contains a number of anomalies, errors and misspecifications that make it intractable. This version partially remedies these issues and represents a cleaner version of the data than the original, albeit with the imposition of a few assumptions. This version also adds value and variable labels where that information is available.

Most of these assumptions were made to deal with the specification of certain variable values as strings instead of integrers representing categoricals defined in the questionnaire (which serves as the only source of information for the dataset - no complete metadata is obviously available). For example, certain schools were assigned the string value "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std Senior Primary (Std Primary (Sub A - Std Senior Secondary (Std 9 - Std 10)) - Std Senior Secondary (Std 9 - Std 10)))Junior Secondary (Std Secondary (Std 6 - Std 10) - Std Combined (Sub A - Std 10))", which is nonsensical. It was assumed that these values were misspecified entries which should have read "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std 2)". As such, these responses were redefined as having a value of "1", which corresponds with "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std 2)" - information gleaned from the questionnaire.

A full list of these changes is included in the a document accompanying this dataset.

Scope

Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
EDUCATION [6] CESSDA Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage
Geographic Unit
GPS coordinates
Universe
All schools in South Africa

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Human Science Research Council
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name
National Department of Education

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1996-03-01 1997-01-01
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Manager, DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org Link
Access conditions
Datasets only accessible in DataFirst research data centre.
Citation requirements
National Department of Education. School Register of Needs Survey 1996 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: National Department of Education [producers], 1997. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org Link

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.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_ZAF_1996_SRNS_v01_M
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town DDI Producer
Date of Metadata Production
2012-02-20
DDI Document version
Version 1.0
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