The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) third wave: methods, first findings and an agenda for future research

Type Journal Article - Development Southern Africa
Title The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) third wave: methods, first findings and an agenda for future research
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Volume 24
Issue 5
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2007
Page numbers 629-648
URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03768350701650488
Abstract
The panel study known as the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) has been extended by a new wave of data collection conducted in 2004. This third wave of the study interviewed 865 households containing core adult members from 760 of the households contacted in 1993. It also conducted interviews in next-generation households that have split off from the parental households and in the current households of children who have been fostered out. The study finds that the proportion of people aged 20–44 dying between the second and third waves was nearly three times the proportion dying between the first two waves. The pattern of income distribution is one of increasing poverty and inequality since 1993, although the partial reversal of these trends in the post-1998 period is hopeful, as are signs of relative prosperity among those who established independent next-generation households. In addition, access to services has improved.\n\n

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