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School Register of Needs Survey 2000

South Africa, 2000
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Reference ID
zaf-hsrc-srns-2000-v1.2
Producer(s)
Human Sciences Research Council
Collections
Department of Basic Education
Metadata
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Mar 07, 2012
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Data appraisal
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    zaf-hsrc-srns-2000-v1.2
    Title

    School Register of Needs Survey 2000
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Education Survey [es]
    Series Information

    National Department of Education. School Register of Needs Survey 2000 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: National Department of Education [producers], 1997. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/k954-ax80
    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. The 2000 version was intended to update the 1996 version of the register of needs database, include 3000 institutions that were previously excluded, provide accurate data on geolocality of schools, school conditions and the availability of resources, and measure progress and trends betwee 1996 and 2000.
    Kind of Data

    Administrative records
    Unit of Analysis

    Institutions

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.2: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution
    Version Notes

    This version was adapted from a cleaned dataset prepared by the Developmental Policy Research Unit (DPRU), which was obtained by DataFirst at an unknown date between the original release and February 2012. This version replaces numerous string valued variables with integer valued ones, which is particularly useful as case sensitivity has artificially separated semantically identical observations into different categories for some variables. These integer valued string variables are labelled and the codelist relating those labels is provided as an accompanying document. The original version contained a number of anomalies, errors and misspecifications. This version partially remedies these issues and represents a cleaner version of the data than the original (which can be requested from DataFirst if required).

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the survey includes the following: general information for the participants' school; information on general and specialised teaching areas, hostel facilities and the use of these facilities; resources available for education and administration; Physical and infrastructural resources
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    employment [3.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    in-job training [3.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    labour relations/conflict [3.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    retirement [3.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    working conditions [3.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS [2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION [14] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    Keywords
    education resources learning

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey had 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
    2000-05 2000-12

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    This version was adapted from a cleaned dataset prepared by the Developmental Policy Research Unit (DPRU), which was obtained by DataFirst at an unknown date between the original release and February 2012. This version replaces numerous string valued variables with integer valued ones, which is particularly useful as case sensitivity has artificially separated semantically identical observations into different categories for some variables. These integer valued string variables are labelled and the codelist relating those labels is provided as an accompanying document. The original version contained a number of anomalies, errors and misspecifications that make it intractable. This version partially remedies these issues and represents a cleaner version of the data than the original (which can be requested from DataFirst).

    Data Access

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

    Licensed use files, available for non-commercial use only
    Citation requirements

    National Department of Education. School Register of Needs Survey 2000 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: National Department of Education [producers], 1997. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/k954-ax80

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Manager, DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    ddi-hsrc-datafirst-srsn-2000-v2
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-04-30

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 3
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