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Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-2006

South Africa, 2005 - 2006
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zaf-statssa-ies-2005-2006-v2.1
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Statistics South Africa
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South African Income Survey Data
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May 22, 2013
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  • Identification
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  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
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  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    zaf-statssa-ies-2005-2006-v2.1
    Title
    Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-2006
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type
    Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
    Series Information
    Statistics South Afrca. Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-2006 [dataset]. Version 2.1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2008. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/05vp-vh12
    Abstract
    The Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-2006 conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) between September 2005 and August 2006. The survey was designed to collect data on items and services acquired by South African households, sources of household income (monetary or in-kind) and household expenditure within a given reference period. Studies of this nature play an important role in evaluating changes in consumption patterns and income distribution. The data collected provides input to the goods and services for inclusion in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket of goods and services.
    Kind of Data
    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    Units of analysis in the survey are households and individuals

    Version

    Version Description
    v2.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution.

    Version 1 of the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-6 was released by Statistics South Africa in the 1st Quarter of 2008. This version did not contain person-level data.
    Version 2 of this dataset, which was released by Statistics South Africa in the 3rd Quarter of 2008, contains person-level data, and replaces the earlier version.

    Version 2.1 has value labels added by DataFirst. In the older version (v2), a variable was split into two in the process of conversion from ASCII to Stata The split variable "donkey" and "cart_ox_cart" have been corrected in verstion 2.1 to reflect the original variable "donkey_cart_ox_cart".
    Version Date
    2008
    Version Notes
    Version 1 of the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-6 was released by Statistics South Africa in the 1st Quarter of 2008. This version did not contain person-level data.
    Version 2 of this dataset, which was released by Statistics South Africa in the 3rd Quarter of 2008, contains person-level data, and replaces the earlier version.

    Version 2.1 has value labels added by DataFirst. In the older version (v2), a variable was split into two in the process of conversion from ASCII to Stata The split variable “donkey” and “cart_ox_cart” have been corrected in verstion 2.1 to reflect the original variable “donkey_cart_ox_cart”.

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey collected data on all income received by household members and all goods and services obtained by the household over the 11 months prior to the survey, as well as during the survey month.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    The survey had national coverage
    Universe
    The survey covered all de jure household members

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Statistics South Africa

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2005-09 2006-08
    Data Collection Notes
    The IES 2005/2006 based on the diary method was the first of its kind to be conducted by Stats SA. Previously IESs were conducted by Stats SA every five years using the recall method. In the recall method a single questionnaire was administered to a household at a selected dwelling unit in the sample. The responding households were required to recall expenditure and sources of income for 12 months prior to the survey.

    Stats SA decided to change the survey methodology, in line with international best practice, from the recall method to a combination of the recall and the diary methods. A fieldworker administered a main questionnaire to a selected household over five separate visits during which households were required to account for all income and for acquisitions of goods and services over the 11 months prior to the survey. During the four weeks of the survey month, households were also given diaries and were required to record their daily acquisitions in a diary on a daily basis. The diaries were collected on a weekly basis for a period of a month. The purpose of the diary was to try to minimise or eliminate the recall problem over the four weeks of the survey month so that the information collected was as accurate as possible

    access_policy

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org
    Access conditions
    Licensed dataset, accessibe under conditions
    Citation requirements
    Statistics South Afrca. Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-2006 [dataset]. Version 2.1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2008. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/05vp-vh12

    Contacts

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

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID
    ddi-zaf-datafirst-ies-2005-2006-v1.2
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Producer
    Date of Metadata Production
    2020-03-29

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Version 2
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