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Rural Survey 1997

South Africa, 1997
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Reference ID
ZAF_1997_RS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
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Aug 26, 2013
Last modified
May 01, 2014
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  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
ZAF_1997_RS_v01_M
Title
Rural Survey 1997
Country/Economy
Name Country code
South Africa ZAF
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Abstract
The 1997 rural survey was designed to determine to what extent rural households in the former homelands had access to land and to income-generating activities. In addition the survey sought to obtain data on actual farming activities. The survey was the first of its kind undertaken by Statistics South Africa.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Units of analysis in the survey were households and individuals

Version

Version Description
Version 1.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution
Version Date
1999
Version Notes
Version 1.1 is the data received from Statistics South Africa, with variable and value labels added by DataFirst

Scope

Notes
The survey collected data on access to land, subsistence farming, sources of income, assistance and employment creation. Data was also collected on the relationship between income generation and the size of land, reasons for farming, as well as farm workers, paid and unpaid, unpaid family members working on farms, and workers paid in kind.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
The survey had national coverage but only of the former "homeland" areas.
Geographic Unit
The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is magisterial district
Universe
The survey covered households in the former "homelands" of South Africa

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Statistics South Africa

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The 1996 census sampling frame was used to select EAs for the 1997 Rural Survey but the survey was restricted to the former homeland areas, i.e. Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei (TBVC states); KaNgwane, KwaNdebele, KwaZulu, Gazankulu, Qwaqwa and Lebowa (self governing territories). A total of 600 enumeration areas (EAs) were drawn and 10 households were selected from each EA, yielding a sample of about 6000 households. Sample selection was carried out independently in each stratum applying a two stage sampling procedure; a systematic sample of EAs followed by a systematic sample of households.Former homelands in six provinces were regarded as natural occurring strata and as a result Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng were not part of the strata.
Weighting
Since the sample design was not necessarily a self-weighting design, weights had to be used. Two types of weights were calculated, namely, person weights and household weights. Household weights were calculated by using the reciprocal of the product of an EA inclusion probability and a household inclusion probability. Relative scaling was done on the household weight due to the changes in EA sizes in the 1996 census sample frame and to take into account the growth rate of the population from 1996 to 1997. Person weights were calculated by first post-stratifying the data by province (former homeland in a province) gender and 5 year age groups. The 1996 Census population figures were used as benchmarks for the post stratum. Since the target areas were former homelands, which are largely African areas, population group was a factor in the benchmarks.

Data Collection

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

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link
World Bank Microdata Library microdata@worldbank.org
Access conditions
Licensed dataset, accessible under conditions
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:

Statistics South Africa. Rural Survey 1997. Ref. ZAF_1997_RS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/catalogue3/index.php/catalog/312 on [date].
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town support@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_1997_RS_v01_M
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
Date of Metadata Production
2013-02-19
DDI Document version
Version 02 (August 2013). Edited version based on Version 01 DDI (ddi-zaf-datafirst-rs-1997-v1) that was done by DataFirst.
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