{"doc_desc":{"title":"zaf-mc-wisa-2007-2011-v1","producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbr":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata producer"}],"prod_date":"2024-06-05","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"zaf-mc-wisa-2007-2011-v1","title":"Water Inequality in South Africa 2007-2011","alternate_title":"WISA 2007-2011"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Megan Cole","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"funding_agencies":[{"name":"School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford","abbr":"","role":"Funder"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Support","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"www.support.data1st.org"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Replication\/Reproducibility Data"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution.","version_date":"2017"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Piped water","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Water access","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Water use","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Water stress","vocab":"","uri":""}],"abstract":"The water access and use data includes data on water access, water use, and water stress. Data on piped water access is collected by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) annually in the General Household Survey (GHS) and once a decade in the national census. The Census data is published down to the Ward level. To compile this dataset, data on piped water access for households in all 4,277 wards was extracted from StatsSA's Census 2011 SuperWeb database and collated by municipality, district and province, and by urban and rural area (classified as traditional\/tribal area or commercial farm 'geotype').The data also covers water use and water stress. This data was calculated from information in over 800 individual reports commissioned by the national Department of Water Affairs. This includes data on per capita water stress (supply less demand divided by population) of each metro, town, and village cluster in South Africa, based on information on demand, supply and population in the reports. Water inequality indices (Gini index and Palma ratio) for water use and water access are also provided, at national, provincial, district, and local administrative levels.\nThe data was collected and prepared by Megan Cole at the University of Oxford, as evidence for the following publication:\nCole, Megan J., Bailey, Richard M., Cullis, James, D.S. and New, Mark G. 2017. Spatial inequality in water access and water use in South Africa. Water Policy (2018) 20 (1): 37\u201352. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2166\/wp.2017.111","coll_dates":[{"start":"2007","end":"2011","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"geog_unit":"The data is at the level of province, district municipality, and local municipality.","analysis_unit":"Households and cities\/towns\/metros","data_kind":"Administrative records and survey data","notes":"The dataset includes data on household-level access to piped water, water use and water stress."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Megan Cole","abbr":"","role":"","affiliation":"University of Oxford"}],"coll_mode":["Other"],"sources":[{"name":"","origin":"","characteristics":""}],"coll_situation":"Data on piped water access for households in all 4,277 wards was extracted from Statistics SA's Census 2011 SuperWeb database. Data on water use and water stress was drawn from over 800 individual reports commissioned by the national Department of Water Affairs."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"support.data1st.org"}],"cit_req":"Cole, Megan. 2011. Water Inequality  in South Africa 2007-2011 [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: Megan Cole [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2024. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25828\/V3N8-4G97","conditions":"Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License"}}},"schematype":"survey"}