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National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey 2020, Wave 1

South Africa, 2020
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
Nic Spaull, Ronelle Burger, Rulof Burger, David Carel, Reza Daniels, Nwabisa Makaluza, Dorrit Posel, Vimal Ranchhod, Servaas van der Berg, Gabrielle Wills
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Identification

Survey ID Number
ZAF_2020_NIDS-CRAM-W1_v01_M
Title
National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey 2020, Wave 1
Subtitle
Wave 1
Country
Name Country code
South Africa ZAF
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Series Information
National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) 2020, Wave 1 [dataset]. Version 1.1.0. Cape Town: Allan Gray Orbis Foundation [funding agency]. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [implementer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/7tn9-1998
Abstract
The National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey 2020 investigates the socioeconomic impacts of the national lockdown associated with the State of Disaster declared in South Africa in March 2020, and the social and economic consequences in South Africa of the global Coronavirus pandemic. NIDS-CRAM forms part of a broader study called the Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM) which aims to inform policy using rapid reliable research on income, employment and welfare in South Africa, in the context of the global Coronavirus pandemic. The study is run by researchers from the University of Stellenbosch, University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). The NIDS-CRAM survey data collection and production operations were implemented by the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at UCT. The data is collected with Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), with data collection repeated over several months.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Households and individuals

Version

Version Description
Version 1.1.0: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
Version Date
2020-07-09
Version Notes
Version 1.1.0 is the first public release of the data.

Scope

Notes
The NIDS-CRAM Survey collects data on the following for households and household members:
- Demographics (age, gender, race)
- Labour and income (education, employment, income, occupation, threats to business/income from the lockdown), pensions and government grants, financial support)
- Household and Social (housing type, household size, access to water and electricity)
- Health and COVID-19 (behavior and knowledge related to COVID-19, tests, infections, symptoms, health facility visits, health conditions, access to medical insurance).

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage, as NIDS was only designed to be nationally representative, it is inadvisable to use the NIDS-CRAM data to calculate provincial or regional totals.
Geographic Unit
The NIDS-CRAM data is at the country level only.
Universe
The universe of the study is South Africans 18 years old or older.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Nic Spaull
Ronelle Burger
Rulof Burger
David Carel
Reza Daniels
Nwabisa Makaluza
Dorrit Posel
Vimal Ranchhod
Servaas van der Berg
Gabrielle Wills
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Role
Allan and Gill Gray Philanthropy Funder of Waves 1-3
FEM Education Foundation Funder of Waves 4-6
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Funder of Waves 4-6

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The sample frame for NIDS-CRAM is the NIDS Wave 5 CSMs and TSMs who were 18 years or older at the time of the NIDS-CRAM Wave 1 fieldwork preparation in April 2020. The sample was drawn using a stratified sampling design. No attempt was made to check whether successfully re-interviewed individuals resided in the same households as they did in Wave 5. In the survey, individuals from larger households were more likely to be sampled than individuals from smaller households.
Weighting
The weighted NIDS-CRAM survey data reflects the outcomes in 2020 for a broadly representative sample of South Africans 15 years and older from NIDS Wave 5 in 2017 who were followed up 3 years later.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End Cycle
2020-05-07 2020-06-27 Wave 1
Data Collection Mode
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]
Supervision
Ethics approval for the NIDS-CRAM Survey was granted by the Commerce Faculty Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town and the Research Ethics Committee: Social, Behavioral and Education Research, of the University of Stellenbosch.

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
Though NIDS-CRAM is a follow-up with NIDS Wave 5 respondents, the NIDS-CRAM survey uses a much shorter questionnaire, with a focus on the Coronavirus pandemic and the national lockdown.

The questionnaire consists of the following sections:
- Identification
- Background information
- Labor and income
- Household and social outcomes
- Health and COVID-19
- Interviewer evaluation

Access policy

Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org support.data1st.org
Contacts
Name Affiliation Email
DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org
Access conditions
Public use files, available to all
Citation requirements
National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) 2020, Wave 1 [dataset]. Version 1.1.0. Cape Town: Allan Gray Orbis Foundation [funding agency]. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [implementer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/7tn9-1998

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_ZAF_2020_NIDS-CRAM-W1_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
Development Economics Data Group DECDG The World Bank Metadata adapted for Microdata Library
Date of Metadata Production
2020-07-15
DDI Document version
Version 01: This metadata was downloaded from DataFirst microdata repository website. The following two metadata information have been edited – Document and Survey ID.
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