School Register of Needs Survey 1996
South Africa, 1996 - 1997
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Reference ID
zaf-hsrc-srns-1996-v1.1
Producer(s)
Human Sciences Research Council
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Identification
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]
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".
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 | Link |
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 |
Access policy
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | Link |
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
Access authority
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | Link |
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
DDI Document version
Version 3