Latest Datasets
DataFirst published two new harmonised South African datasets, in partnership with producers of the original data:
The Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS) 1993-2025 is a harmonised stacked dataset using data from the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development conducted by SALDRU at the University of Cape Town, as well as cross-sectional labour market surveys conducted by South Africa's government statistics agency, Statistics South Africa, from 1994 to 2025.
The Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series (PASES) 1995-2024 is a stacked series containing data from 28 nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys conducted by Statistics South Africa, including the October Household Surveys conducted every year between 1995-1999 and the General Household Surveys conducted every year since 2002.
Other datasets published in November were:
The Department of Basic Education’s Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System (LURITS). The LURITS data is administrative data from the DBE’s School Administration and Management System. LURITS includes unit-record data for each learner in South Africa, from Grade R through to Grade 12. The data is published in three rounds, for 2017-2021; 2022-2023 and 2024.
University of Cape Town Student Admissions Data 2006-2025
This dataset was created from administrative data on student applications to the University of Cape Town, and covers academic years 2006-2014; 2015-2019; and 2020-2025. To ensure data confidentiality direct identifiers have been removed from the data and the data is only made available to accredited researchers through a Trusted Research Environment, DataFirst's secure Remote Access Data Enclave.