South Africa - Manpower Survey 1965-1994

Reference ID

zaf-css-ms-1965-1994-v1.2

Year

1965

Country

South Africa

Producer(s)

South African Department of Labour - Government of South Africa
Central Statistical Service (CSS) (now Statistics South Africa) - Government of South Africa

Sponsor(s)

Project for Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries - PEDL - Funder

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Mar 19, 2013

Last modified

Apr 22, 2020

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Overview

Identification

Country

South Africa

Title

Manpower Survey 1965-1994

Study Type

Labour Force Survey

Recommended Citation

Central Statistical Service (now Statistics South Africa) & Department of Labour. Manpower Survey 1965-1994, [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: DOL & CSS [producers], 1995. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/0wkh-sn59

ID Number

zaf-css-ms-1965-1994-v1.2

Version

Version Description

Version 1.2: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution

Production Date

2015-06-29

Notes

Version 1 of the dataset was obtained by DataFirst in March 2013. In version 1.1 of this dataset DataFirst has merged the data files and created variable labels, and provided documentation for the surveys. Version 1.2 was released on 29 June 2015. Version 1.2 has the following changes

The 780 values in the "occupation" variable have been labelled

The "year" variable is now a 4 digit date.

The variable "afdeling" has been translated to English as "section".

Variable G9 has been deleted as it wasn't clear what this variable represents in the data.

Overview

Abstract

The survey was undertaken bi-annually from 1965-1985 by the South African Department of Manpower (now the South African Department of Labour) and the standard form used the department's own classification scheme. In 1996 the name changed to the Occupational Survey. In 1998 it was replaced by the Survey of Occupations by Race and Gender, but this was discontinued after the pilot study in 1998. The two series of Manpower Surveys are not always comparable. Data users need to read the data quality notes provided for further details on data comparability.

The Manpower Survey is a survey of enterprises in South Africa that collected industry and occupation data by gender and race for each enterprise. It covered both the private and public sector, but excluded workers in the informal sector and agricultural sector, and domestic workers in private households. Enterprise details for the survey sample were obtained from government sources, and the survey instrument was a form mailed to enterprise managers.

The dataset available from DataFirst is not at firm level, but is rather the industry and occupation data by gender and race available from the survey reports. This country-level data is from the Manpower Surveys conducted in 1965-1994, unearthed in a project to find and share historical South African microdata. The data was obtained with the assistance of Lucia Lotter, Anneke Jordaan and Marie-Lousie van Wyk from the Human Sciences Research Council's Research Use and Impact Assessment Department. The project was made possible by an exploratory grant obtained by Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg of DataFirst from the Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) research initiative. PEDL is a joint research initiative of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Uk Department For International Development (DFID). It aims to develop a research programme focusing on private-sector development in low-income countries.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data

Units of Analysis

Individuals and institutions

Scope

Notes

The Manpower Survey records employment by race and gender for occupations in both private and public enterprises in the formal non-agricultural business sector. It excludes domestic workers in private households.

The surveys conducted by the Department of Labour between 1965 and 1985 have the following industry groupings:

1. Forestry

2. Fishing

3. Mining

4. Food, beverage and tobacco

5. Textiles

6. Clothing

7. Wood and furniture

8. Printing

9. Paper

10. Rubber products

11. Leather and shoe

12. Glass, cement, bricks

13. Metal and engineering

14. Motor industry

15. Jewellers and opticians

16. Commerce

17. Financial organisations

18. Transport

19. Local authorities

20. Hotels and clubs

21. Other personal services

22. Medical, professional, education and related services

23. Government, SAR&H (South African Railways and Harbours) and administrations

The surveys conducted by the Central Statistical Service (now Statistics SA) were grouped by the non-agricultural industrial sectors and sub-groups in the Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (SIC) 5th edition http://www.statssa.gov.za/additional_services/sic/sic.htm

Occupational breakdown within these industrial groups was done according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) http://www.statssa.gov.za/additional_services/Codelists/Occupational.pdf

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Labor Markets	World Bank

Keywords

labour, formal sector, enterprise, employment, gender, occupation

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage, but excluded the "independent" " homelands" of Bophuthatswana and Transkei (excluded from 1979) Venda (1981) and the Ciskei (1983).

Universe

The universe of the survey were enterprises in the formal non-agricultureal sector in South Africa

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
South African Department of Labour	Government of South Africa
Central Statistical Service (CSS) (now Statistics South Africa)	Government of South Africa

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
Project for Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries	PEDL	Funder

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst		University of Cape Town	Metadata producer

Date of Metadata Production

2020-04-22

DDI Document Version

Version 4

DDI Document ID

ddi-zaf-datafirst-ms-1965-1994-v1.1