October Household Survey 1994

South Africa, 1994

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zaf-statssa-ohs-1994-v1.4

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data

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zaf-statssa-ohs-1994-v1.4

Title

October Household Survey 1994

Country

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Household Survey [hh]

Series Information

Central Statistical Service. October Household Survey 1994 [dataset]. Version 1.4. Pretoria: Central Statistics Service (now Statistics South Africa) [producer], 1995. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/kt7z-8j98

Abstract

The October Household Survey (OHS) was an annual sample survey undertaken by the Central Statistical Service (now Statistics South Africa) for the first time in 1993 and carried out until 1999. The original purpose of the OHS was to fill the data gap that resulted from the suspension of the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the related survey on the informal sector. Like the 1993 OHS the 1994 OHS collected data on employment, population and housing, but this time specifically to provide data for the new South African government's Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).

Kind of Data

Sample survey data

Unit of Analysis

Households and individuals

Version

Version Description

v1.4: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution

Version Date

2008-03-25

Version Notes

Version 1 of the OHS 1994 dataset was obtained by DataFirst, provenance unknown.
Version 1.1 of the dataset was obtained from Statistics South Africa.
Version 1.2 was downloaded from the South African Data Archive (SADA).
Version 1.3 is a result of work done on versions 1.1.and 1.2 by Professor Martin Wittenberg for DataFirst's Data Quality Project (Please refer to Prof Wittenberg's article "October Household Survey 1994" available with this dataset for details of changes made). The values and variables have also been labeled in version 1.3
This version, version 1.4, is the Data Quality Project version 1.3 with a "Births" data file obtained from Statistics SA added to the dataset.

Note that versioning is done at data file level, so the unchanged but added Births file is still version 1, the updated files are version 1.3 but the dataset version has changed, i.e. version 1.3 with a new data file added, so now dataset version 1.4.

The questionnaire from SADA has also been corrected in the latest version.

NOTE ON FILE VERSIONS

Any changes made to a dataset will be reflected by a new dataset version number.
However, if data files within the dataset have not been changed, they will retain the previous version number.
In this case, version 1 of the "Births" file has been added to version 1.3 of the dataset to create dataset version 1.4. The files retain the previous version number to show that there have been no changes to these, the only change being the addition of the "Births" data file.

Scope

Notes

The survey collected population data, including on births and deaths, data on housing and and services, employment (including unemployment and the informal sector) and perceived quality of life

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province

Universe

The survey covered all household members in South Africa

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Statistics South Africa

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

Unlike the 1993 OHS, the 1994 survey includes the former TBVC states(Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei: the former homelands)
and covers the nine provinces established after 1994. The 1991 Population Census served as the basis of the sample framework for the OHS. A stratified multi-stage cluster sample was used. The size and geographical distribution of the population were taken into account in stratifying according to (the predominant) population group and urban or non-urban region. Depending on the size of each stratum, between 20 and 70 enumerator areas (EAs) were drawn at random for inclusion in the sample. Within each EA a cluster of 30 households was drawn at random. Altogether 30300 households in 1010 EAs (Blacks 530 + Coloureds 160 + Asians 90 + Whites 230) were included in the sample.

Weighting

In August 2000 the October Household Survey 1994 was re-weighted based on the results of the 1996 Population Census, and the data re-released. The current dataset is version 1.4 which is the reweighted data with corrections by Professor Martin Wittenberg for the Data Quality Project, variable and value labels and a "births" file missing in the original obtained from Statistics SA and added to the dataset

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
1994-09	1994-11

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Access authority

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

Access conditions

Public use files, available to all

Citation requirements

Disclaimer and copyrights

Contacts

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

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

ddi-zaf-datafirst-ohs-1994-v1.3

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	Metadata producer

Date of Metadata Production

2020-06-18

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 3

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