Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series 1995-2024

The Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series (PASES) is a stacked series of 28 nationally-representative cross-sectional household surveys covering every year between 1995-2024, with the exception of 2000 and 2001. The source data consists of data from the October Household Surveys conducted every year by Statistics South Africa between 1995-19991 and the General Household Surveys, conducted every year by StatsSA since 2002. The current PASES includes data up to 2024. The surveys collect both household and person information and the series currently consists of just over 640 000 households and their 2.4 million members. A subset of variables from the survey data has been included and harmonised across time. Along with some new and derived variables, there are currently 119 variables in the dataset covering social, demographic and economic outcomes. The data are released in two files, a main file and an extra income variables file along with the syntax files used to create the data.