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School Register of Needs Survey 1996

South Africa, 1996 - 1997
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zaf-hsrc-srns-1996-v1.1
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Human Sciences Research Council
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Department of Basic Education
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Mar 06, 2012
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    Survey ID number

    zaf-hsrc-srns-1996-v1.1

    Title

    School Register of Needs Survey 1996

    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Education Survey [es]

    Series Information

    National Department of Education. School Register of Needs Survey 1996 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: National Department of Education [producers], 1997. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014.DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/62f9-9p72

    Abstract

    The Department of Education commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to conduct a national survey on the locality and other information linked to all schools in South Africa.

    Kind of Data

    Administrative records

    Unit of Analysis

    Institutions

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution

    Version Date

    1997

    Version Notes

    The original version of the School Register of Needs Survey was obtained by DataFirst at an unknown date between the original release and February 2012.

    This version partially remedies anomalies in the original and represents a cleaner version of the data than the original, albeit with the imposition of a few assumptions. This version also adds value and variable labels where that information is available.

    Most of these assumptions were made to deal with the specification of certain variable values as strings instead of integrers representing categoricals defined in the questionnaire (which serves as the only source of information for the dataset - no complete metadata is obviously available). For example, certain schools were assigned the string value "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std Senior Primary (Std Primary (Sub A - Std Senior Secondary (Std 9 - Std 10)) - Std Senior Secondary (Std 9 - Std 10))Junior Secondary (Std Secondary (Std 6 - Std 10) - Std Combined (Sub A - Std 10))", which is nonsensical. It was assumed that these values were misspecified entries which should have read "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std 2)". As such, these responses were redefined as having a value of "1", which corresponds with "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std 2)" - information gleaned from the questionnaire.

    A full list of these changes is included in the the document "SRNS 1996 Variable Relabelling Process".

    Scope

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    EDUCATION [6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey has national coverage

    Geographic Unit

    GPS coordinates

    Universe

    The universe of the survey was all schools in South Africa

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Human Sciences Research Council
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    National Department of Education

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1996-03-01 1997-01-01

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town http://www.support.data1st.org support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public use files, available to all

    Citation requirements

    National Department of Education. School Register of Needs Survey 1996 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: National Department of Education [producers], 1997. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014.DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/62f9-9p72

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org http://support.data1st.org/

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    ddi-zaf-datafirst-srns-1996-v2

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-04-28

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 3

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