South African Integrated Family Survey 1999, Langeberg Survey

South Africa, 1999

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zaf-saldru-saifs-1999-v1.1

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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Apr 23, 2013

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Survey ID number

zaf-saldru-saifs-1999-v1.1

Title

South African Integrated Family Survey 1999

Subtitle

Langeberg Survey

Country

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Household Survey [hh]

Series Information

Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit. South African Integrated Family Survey 1999. [dataset]. Version 1.1. Cape Town: SALDRU [producer], 2001. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/fsdq-hf81

Abstract

The South African Integrated Family Survey was undertaken in the second half of 1999 in the Langeberg district of the Western Cape province of South Africa. This area comprises the three magisterial districts of Mossel Bay, Heidelberg, and Riversdal which, at the time of the 1996 census, had a population of just under 97 000 persons of whom more than three-quarters (78%) lived in urban areas. The remaining 22% of the population lived in 'non-urban' areas, mainly commercial farms.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data

Unit of Analysis

Households and individuals

Version

Version Description

v1.1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution

Version Date

2001

Version Notes

Version 1.1 of the dataset is the original dataset from SALDRU, with value labels added by DataFirst. Additional changes include the correction of variable labels in householdmod_01d, oldergivemoney_01d and olderhea_02d files.

Changes in version 1.1
Corrections were made to variables in the following files, which had been mislabelled
Filename: SAIFS 1999 Householdmod_01d.dta
variable name old variable label new variable label
EndingHo QB19.1 Ending hour of module QB18.1 Ending hour of module
EndingMi QB19.1 Ending minute of module QB18.1 Ending minute of module
Comprehe QB19.3 Comprehension level QB18.3 Comprehension level
Cooperat QB19.4 Cooperation level QB18.4 Cooperation level
Assistan QB19.5 Assistance? QB18.5 Assistance?
Addition QB19.7 Additional information QB18.7 Additional information

Filename: SAIFS 1999 Oldergivemoney_01d.dta
variable name variable label variable label
Employed QC20.12 Is he/she employed? QC15.12 Is he/she employed?
Occup_a1 QC20.13 What is his her occupation? QC15.13 What is his her occupation?
Occup_a2 QC20.13 Occupation code? QC15.13 Occupation code?

Filename: SAIFS 1999 Olderhea_02d.dta
All variables. These had been mislabelled as being from Section I but were from Section E. These were renamed replacing "QI" with "QE".

Remaining Data Quality Issues
After corrections to the data by DataFirst, remaining identified data quality issues with the dataset are that the variables identified in the files below do not have corresponding questions in the questionnaires for the survey:
Filename: SAIFS 1999 Householdmod_01d.dta
variable name variable label
HelpFami QB18.1.1 Help violence
HelpAlco QB18.1.2 Help alcohol
HelpPhys QB18.1.3 Help physical disability
HelpMent QB18.1.4 Help mental disability
HelpElde QB18.1.5 Help elderly
HelpPreg QB18.1.6 Help pregnancy
HelpUnem QB18.1.7 Help unemployment
HelpAids QB18.1.8 Help HIV/AIDS
HelpOthe QB18.1.9 Help other
HelpOth1 QB18.1.9 Help other specified
DTCInAre QB18.2 District Transformation Commitee DTC
DTCMembe QB18.2a Member of DTC
WelfareM QB18.3 Welfare member
Communit QB18.4 Community centre in area?
Sufficie QB18.5 Sufficient creches?

Filename: SAIFS 1999 Householdorganise_01d.dta
All variables

Scope

Notes

The survey collected data on household demographics and health (including mental health), dwelling characteristics, household goods and services, education, employment, mortality and migration, income and expenditure (including grants and pensions) and data on social integration and life satisfaction.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1]	CESSDA
income, property and investment/saving [1.5]	CESSDA
employment [3.1]	CESSDA
EDUCATION [6]	CESSDA
HEALTH [8]	CESSDA
housing [10.1]	CESSDA
cultural activities and participation [13.2]	CESSDA
social behaviour and attitudes [13.6]	CESSDA
social conditions and indicators [13.8]	CESSDA
migration [14.3]	CESSDA
morbidity and mortality [14.4]	CESSDA
specific social services: use and provision [15.3]	CESSDA

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey covered the Langeberg region of the Western Cape Province in South Africa

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is magisterial district

Universe

The survey covered all de jure household members in the area of Langeberg

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit	University of Cape Town

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Role
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation	Funder
MacArthur Foundation	Funder
National Institute of Aging	Funder for pilot study
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation	Funder for pilot study
HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology	Funder for pilot study

Sampling

Weighting

Weights are the inverse of the probability of selection of the household (which were calculated when the sample EAs were drawn) times the inverse of the response rate (which may be interpreted as an inverse probability of selection under the assumption that observations are missing at random within EA's). This product summed across the 294 households to an arbitrary number approximately equal to the total number of households in the Langeberg district. The weights were rescaled to sum across completed households to the sample size, 294, by dividing each weight (the product) by the mean weight for the 294 cases. The Rescaled weight is the weight adjusted for non-response in the survey and the Rcensus weight is the Rescaled weight adjusted to 1996 population census proportions.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

Data was collected from a stratified sample consisting of 294 households (103 Black; 126 Coloured; and 65 White) by means of four questionnaires: one directed at adults of 55 years and older; one at younger adults (between 18 and 54 years of age) and two focused on health (including anthropometric measurements) of adults and children. The survey instrument used was one that had been developed over a four year period and was the joint product of researchers at the University of Cape Town (Monica Ferreira, HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology, Karen Charlton, Nutrition and Dietetics Unit; and Jaqui Goldin, SALDRU); University of the Western Cape (Pieter le Roux, Economics); University of the Witwatersrand (Merton Dagut, and Martin Wittenberg, Faculty of Commerce); Rhodes University (Valerie Moller); the Medical Research Council (Krisela Steyn and Debbie Bradshaw); Princeton University (Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Economics and Woodrow Wilson School); Harvard University (Robert Jensen, Kennedy School of Government, and David Bloom, School of Public Health); MIT (Courtney Coile, Economics); the Health Systems Trust (Dr John Gear) and the Western Cape Provincial Dept. of Health (Drs. Najma Shaikh, Mike Hendricks & Ingrid le Roux) together with other persons in the medical community of South Africa. This team of gerontologists, economists, public health experts and physicians grappled with the survey design, both structure and content, through many rounds of piloting, until there was consensus that the questionnaire worked well in the field.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start
1999

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

access_policy

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DataFirst	University of Cape Town		support@data1st.org

Access conditions

Public use files, available to all

Citation requirements

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
DataFirst Helpdesk	University of Cape Town	support@data1st.org

Metadata production

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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