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Early Childhood Development Census 2000

South Africa, 2000
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zaf-doe-ecdc-2000-v1.2
Producer(s)
Department of Education
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Department of Basic Education
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    zaf-doe-ecdc-2000-v1.2
    Title

    Early Childhood Development Census 2000
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Enterprise/Establishment Census
    Abstract

    From May to June 2000, the South African National Department of Education undertook a nationwide audit of Early Childhood Development (ECD) establishments in South Africa. The project collected data on aspects of ECD provisioning from 23,482 sites which employed 54,503 educators and provided services to 1,030,473 learners.
    Kind of Data

    Census/enumeration data
    Unit of Analysis

    Individuals and institutions

    Version

    Version Description

    V1.2: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution.
    Version Date

    2000
    Version Notes

    Version 1 of this dataset was deposited with DataFirst in 2015.
    Version 1.1 of the data was converted from a Microsoft Access database.
    Version 1.2 Variable and value labels were added and data anonymised for sharing.

    Scope

    Notes

    Data collected on ECD facilities includes registration of the facility, the geographical location of the site, basic infrastructure (access to roads, electricity, toilets, water) and special equipment. Other facility level data collected includes the financial base of the site, the nature of the site (school-based, home-based or community based), its sustainability (how long it has been operating), its operating hours, and key aspects of the educational activities at the site. At the educator level, the audit collected data on all educators at the site, including their age, gender, race, highest school grade, highest qualification, teaching experience, and monthly salary. Data was also gathered on learners at each site, including the total number of learners disaggregated by age group, race, and gender. Data was also captured on the number of learners with disabilities and the nature of such disabilities.
    Keywords
    Early childhood development Early learning centres

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey had national coverage.
    Geographic Unit

    The lowest level of geographic aggregation of the data is province.
    Universe

    The universe of the study included Early Childhood Development facilities, and educators and learners at these sites.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Department of Education Government of South Africa
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    European Union Funding agency

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2000-05 2000-06
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face
    Data Collection Notes

    For the purposes of the audit, an ECD site was defined as any public or private, formal or informal ECD location wherein educare is offered to groups of six or more learners. Existing databases within the Departments of Education, Health and Welfare, as well as those of training institutions (including those identified during the postal survey) were accessed. NGOs, CBOs, funding organisations and any other possible sources of site information were also asked to submit site lists to the NDE. An initial unverified list of 30,101 sites was compiled using agencies in the nine provinces. Of these, 4,673 were subsequently deleted by the provincial agencies as being duplicates, non-existent or closed, resulting in a revised total of 25,428 sites. Site data was ultimately collected on 23,482 sites (92%).

    Data Access

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

    Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License
    Citation requirements

    Department of Education. Early Childhood Development Census 2000 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: Department of Education [producer], 2000. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/6cp7-gp19

    Contacts

    Contacts

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata creator
    Date of Metadata Production

    2022-08-21

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 2
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