{"doc_desc":{"title":"Durban Large Firm Survey 2002-2003","idno":"DDI_ZAF_2002-2003_DLFS_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata Producer"}],"prod_date":"2012-01-20","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"ZAF_2002-2003_DLFS_v01_M","title":"Durban Large Firm Survey 2002-2003","alt_title":"DLFS 2002-2003"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Durban Unicity Council","affiliation":""},{"name":"World Bank","affiliation":""},{"name":"Bureau of Market Research","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"Copyright, Statistics South Africa"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Helpdesk","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"http:\/\/support.data1st.org\/"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise\/Establishment Survey [en\/oth]"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution","version_date":"2006"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"business\/industrial management and organisation [2.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"},{"topic":"labour relations\/conflict [3.3]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The Durban Large Firm Survey is the result of an agreement between the Durban Unicity Council and USAID in 2000 to fund a World Bank technically-supported survey of firms in the greater Durban region. The survey, carried out between May 2002 \u2013 April 2003, involved 22 fieldworkers. These were managed by the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) at Unisa.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2002-05","end":"2003-04","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"analysis_unit":"Units of analysis for the survey were enterprises","universe":"The survey covered large manufacturing firms in the Durban metropolitan area of South Africa","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The survey collected general business data on the firm, and data on production, finances, purchasing, sales\/marketing, business relations, human resources, and administrative\/legal matters, as well as port-related data."},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"To assist fieldworkers in selecting sample units (firms) the World Bank provided the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) at Unisa with various sample frames (listings of firm names). These sample frames were used to contact firms randomly by telephone in order to set up appointments with the managing directors, managers or owners of the firms. Because no sample frame is comprehensive enough to include all firms operating in the Durban Metropolitan Area, various sample frames had to be utilized. The study was constructed to stratify industry by type, employment size group and geographic area. The sample frames had some limitations in this regard: they lacked employment size group classifications and they had a limited number of firms for certain sectors and they showed geographic location problems. In some cases information on the firms was outdated.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"The eight questionnaires for the survey covered the following topics: \nQuestionnaire 1: General issues (completed by md\/ceo): General business information, economic policy environment, government's role in investment promotion and local economic development, corporate governance and ownership structure, parent company, corporate finance, interest rates, exports, imports and exchange rates, company tax rates, pdi (previously disadvantaged individual) participation in company ownership, future expectations, mergers\/acquisitions \nQuestionnaire 2: Production related issues (completed by production manager): Products manufactured, choice of location, capacity utilization, capital assets\nQuestionnaire 3: Financial related issues (completed by financial manager) \nQuestionnaire 4: Purchase related issues (completed by the purchasing manager): Business relations, purchase of raw materials, import duties and tariffs, import of raw materials,\nQuestionnaire 5: Sales\/marketing related issues (completed by sales\/marketing manager): Business relations, membership of business associations, sources of information, sale of products, exports, business operations and profitability, government contracts,\nQuestionnaire 6: Human resource related issues (completed by the hr manager): Recruitment, training, labour relations, labour market regulation, employment size and patterns, employees' transport infrastructure, labour cost and impact of HIV\/AIDS\nQuestionnaire 7: Administrative\/legal related issues (completed by the administrative manager): Start-up licenses and permits, licensing and permits required to continue operations\nQuestionnaire 8: Port related issues (completed by the shipping\/export\/marketing manager)"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"info@data1st.org","uri":"http:\/\/www.datafirst.uct.ac.za"}],"cit_req":"Durban Unicity Council. Durban Large Firm Survey 2002-2003. [dataset]. Version 1. Durban: Unicity Council, World Bank [producers] 2006. Durban: University of Kwazulu-Natal, School of Development Studies [distributor], 2011.","conditions":"Public use files, accessible to all","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."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"noDOI"}]}