Survey of Employers and Self-Employed 2005

South Africa, 2005

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Reference ID

ZAF_2005_SESE_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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_2005_SESE_v01_M

Title

Survey of Employers and Self-Employed 2005

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Enterprise/Establishment Survey [en/oth]

Abstract

The Survey of Employers and the Self-employed (SESE) was conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in September 2005.

• to collect data on micro- and small businesses in South Africa, their operation and access to services
• to collect income tax information on non-VAT paying businesses.
• to determine the contribution of these businesses to the economic growth of the country

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Units of analysis in the survey include individuals and enterprises

Version

Version Description

v1.1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution

Version Date

2012-07-16

Version Notes

Version one of the Survey of Employers & Self-Employed was originally released by Statistics South Africa in November 2006. In July 2012 Datafirst added value and variable labels to each datafile, based on the metadata originally provided by Statistics South Africa, to create this version of the dataset (version 1.1).

Scope

Notes

The survey collected background data on small businesses and their operations, including their premises, the establishment of the business and start-up finance. Data was also collected on business production and the workforce, expenditure, capital and transport.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
business/industrial management and organisation [2.2]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
working conditions [3.6]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the SESE 2005 data is Province.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Statistics South Africa

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The focus of the survey was businesses who are not registered for Value Added Tax (VAT). These small and micro-businesses are generally excluded from the business frame which is used in surveys of the formal economy conducted by Statistics South Africa. Currently, there is no sampling frame on which to base weights and raising factors for small unregistered businesses in South Africa. As a result, the research design used for SESE was a household based survey, consisting of two stages. The first stage involved using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) enumeration to identify individuals who were running unregistered businesses. The second stage involved follow-up interviews with the owners of these businesses by QLFS enumerators. The QLFS data was collected in the middle two weeks of the month throughout the quarter. The SESE questionnaire was then administered to individuals in relevant households in the last week of the month, also throughout the quarter.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The questionnaire covered background data on the small business (from questions 4 to 17 of the questionnaire) and its business operations, including the premises, the establishment of the business and start-up finance (question 18 to 39). Data is also collected on production and the workforce (question 40 to 54), expenditure (question 55 to 56), business capital (question 57 to 61) and transport (question 62 to 63).

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2005-09	2005-09

Data Access

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za	info@data1st.org

Access conditions

Public use files, accessible to all

Citation requirements

Statistics South Africa. Survey of Employers & Self-Employed [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2006. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.

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
Manager, DataFirst	University of Cape Town	support@data1st.org	http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2005_SESE_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	DDI Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2012-07-16

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1

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