People's Security Survey 2001

South Africa, 2001

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Reference ID

ZAF_2001_PSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_2001_PSS_v01_M

Title

People's Security Survey 2001

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	ZAF

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Series Information

The People's Security Survey (PSS) is a household survey conducted by the International Labour Orgnaisation's (ILO) Social Security Department (SECSOC). The survey seeks to track the seven forms of work-related security comprising decent work, as well as highlighting people's aspirations and sense of social justice. Between 2000 and 2003, these surveys were conducted in 15 countries and in 2005 these were conducted in three countries: Namibia, Mozambique and Sri Lanka. Because the survey instrument was being developed during that time, and for budgetary reasons, the samples and survey design varied. In some countries, a national representative survey was conducted; in others, representative samples were drawn only from selected regions or from urban areas only.

Abstract

Insecurity is partly objective, partly subjective. To develop a strategy for reducing socio economic insecurity, it is necessary to consider both objective and subjective indicators of security. While it may be relatively easy to create objective indices of socio economic security, to create sound indicators that capture subjective elements of socio economic security, effort has to be made to find out what people in different parts of the world, from different social and demographic groups, perceive as the extent of their security or insecurity. It was with this purpose that IFPSES launched its PSS in mid 2000. The objective of the PSS is therefore to:
- Provide an improved understanding of perceived needs of people for policies and institutional support to provide them with basic security.
- Enable the creation of a Decent Work Index, which is crucial to ILO's work.
- Provide important information that can be used to flag security concerns of workers in ILO
- Reports and other documents.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Units of analysis in the survey include households and individuals

Version

Version Description

Version 01: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution

Version Date

2003

Scope

Notes

The surveys examine both objective and subjective elements of people's security. The questions probe the following:

The socio-economic situation of the respondent and her/his household
People's perceptions of insecurity and security
Sources of socio economic insecurity for different social and demographic groups
Actual knowledge with regard to policies
Perceptions with regard to policies relating to socio economic security
Coping mechanisms

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
social welfare policy [15.1]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
social welfare systems/structures [15.2]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey covered Cape Town, and Durban and Matatiele in Kwazulu-Natal.

Geographic Unit

The data is at the level of the 2 metros and the rural area studied only.

Universe

The universe of the survey was household members aged 15-64

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The pure random sample was drawn following the Census Data, adjusted according to Research Surveys’ statistics department. The unit of analysis is the household. A single respondent was selected per household. Although the first level of stratification was drawn on race and dwelling, within a predominant racial suburb, individual households that were selected might not be part of that race. If, however, a household was chosen, or a respondent within a household, that was not of the same predominant race of the strata, the respondent was not replaced. This would allow for the mixed suburb representation that is common in South Africa today.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The PSS contain about 100 questions - some common to all respondents, and some to specific worker or social groups. A set of core questions are asked in all the PSS. In addition there are questions about specific issues that are important in the context of the country and/or the socio economic group that the PSS targets. The questionnaires are divided into sections by the seven types of securities that the IFP/SES monitors (except three Latin American surveys).

In addition, there are sections on:

Background characteristics - these refer to a respondent's age, marital status and household characteristics.
Basic security - Basic security is analysed in these surveys in terms of access to adequate food, health care, shelter and access to water.
Social justice - these set of questions explore people's sense of social justice since these perceptions are closely linked to the sense of anxiety and distributive justice that underlies insecurity.

Here are sections of the questionnare:
Section A of the questionnaire is the household roster, providing data on household members
Section B of the questionnaire collects data on basic security of households, including security related to food, clothing, health and the financial resources of the household.
Section C of the questionnaire collects data on Labour market security
Section D of the questionnaire collects data on Employment security
Section E of the questionnaire collects data on Job security
Section F of the questionnaire collects data on Skill security
Section G of the questionnaire collects data on Work security
Section H of the questionnaire collects data on Income security
Section I of the questionnaire collects data on Representation security
Section J of the questionnaire collects data on Social justice

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2001-11-15	2001-12-06

Data Collectors

Name
Research Surveys

Data Collection Notes

The South African People's Security Project was undertaken in November 2001, by Research Surveys, based in Cape Town, South Africa. Fieldwork took place between 15 November and 6 December 2001.

Data Access

Access authority

Name	URL
International Labour Organisation (ILO)	http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/pss.pss_files

Access conditions

Public use files, accessible to all

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:

International Labour Organisation. South Africa People's Security Survey 2001. Ref. ZAF_2001_PSS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/pss.pss_files on [date].

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
SES Database - Global	International Labour Organization	bonnet@ilo.org	http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/SESHELP.pss_desc
Manager, DataFirst	University of Cape Town	info@data1st.org	http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za
World Bank Microdata Library		microdata@worldbank.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2001_PSS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	DDI Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2012-03-05

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 02 (August 2013). Edited version based on Version 01 DDI (ddi-zaf-datafirst-pss-2001-v1) that was done by DataFirst.

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