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Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading 2012

South Africa, 2012
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zaf-vpuu-vpuu-2012-v1.1
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Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Project
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Data appraisal
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    zaf-vpuu-vpuu-2012-v1.1
    Title

    Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading 2012
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Household Survey [hh]
    Series Information

    Violence Prevention for Urban Upgrading Project. Violence Prevention for Urban Upgrading 2012 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Cape Town: VPUU [producer], 2013. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/xcjn-8x69
    Abstract

    In March 2012 a decision was taken in a joint meeting between the City of Cape Town (CoCT) and the Western Cape Government (WCG) on Economic Growth in geographic target areas to use Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) as the vehicle to implement a comprehensive area based intervention in the Nyanga-Gugulethu area. The aim of the approach was to improve social, cultural, economic, spatial, institutional and safety factors which will result in improving the quality of life of residents of these areas. A baseline survey was undertaken in November 2012 to provide a quick overview of living conditions in the area. Along with community profile workshop organised by local leadership, the survey provides data on households in the communities examined.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data
    Unit of Analysis

    Households and individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    V1.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution
    Version Date

    2013
    Version Notes

    Version 1 of the dataset was received by DataFirst from the VPUU project team in 2013. Version 1.1 is this dataset cleaned and recoded, with data quality notes.

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey elicits data on five main themes identified by the community: youth development, education, job opportunities and local development, access to public services & amenities, operation and maintenance of public infrastructure, and safety and security.
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Education World Bank
    Infrastructure World Bank
    Poverty World Bank
    Social Development World Bank
    Urban Development World Bank

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey covered Nyanga and Gugulethu, two adjacent former black townships located about 20 kilometers from Cape Town city centre along the N2 close to the Cape Town International Airport.

    During the survey, fieldworkers in a number of areas encountered serious safety issues related to gang violence, which made access difficult. In consultation with local councillors, it was agreed that six areas would not be surveyed. These included namely Hlazo Village, Lusaka, Mpetha Square, New Crossroads, Mau-Mau in Nyanga, and Section 1 in Gugulethu. It was decided that interviews which could not be conducted in high-risk areas should be redistributed to other areas. Lotus Park was intentionally left out of the survey as a Baseline Survey had been conducted in the area in July 2011 and a full enumeration survey is planned for 2013.
    Universe

    The survey covered all adults (18+) in households in Nyanga and Gugulethu

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Project
    Producers
    Name Role
    Cape Town City Council Initiator of the survey
    Western Cape Government Initiator of the survey
    Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Development

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    A representative random 5% sample of households was drawn based on census figures. Based on the 2001 population census it was estimated that in 2008 there were about 36 135 households and 151 248 residents within the boundaries of the Nyanga-Gugulethu Safety Node Area (SND). The baseline survey consisted of 2000 interviews (5%) evenly and randomly selected across the Safety Node Area and its sub-areas. The SNA was divided into 26 sub-areas - 14 in Nyanga and 12 in Gugulethu - and each one of these sub-areas was allocated a specific number of interviews. The number of interviews attributed to each area reflected the distribution of the population across the SNA and the percentage of the population residing in each sub-area. The sub-areas were defined as locally-known social areas.

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2012-11-19 2012-11-30
    Data Collectors
    Name
    Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Project

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    The following data quality issues were raised by DataFirst on receipt of the dataset. These are being addressed by the VPUU Team.

    1. The Dateofinterview variable includes interviews in 2020.

    2. A variable that looks like it could be other wall material in the original dataset is unnamed in the original dataset. This has been treated as other wall material.

    3. The distinction between an after school activity and a post school activity is not clear from the data. "Post school" may be post graduation.

    4. Breadwinnerwork seems to cover both businesses and areas/suburbs

    5. A variable called "otherspecify" is recorded straight after the mode of transport question and is always coded 1

    6. Minutes to get there variables are in different formats (some as large as weeks, some in hours)

    7. The "Specifyname" variable has no non-missing values

    8. The alcohol purchase location variable, "ifathomewherepurchased", had some answers that fited more than one category. A newcode was therefore created to reflect this. Other answers included string inputs describing the other place. These have therefore also been coded.

    9. The use_1 through use_3 variables have been encoded

    10. In the questions that deal with level of acceptable safety the in-between scores were left open to the interpretation of interviewee/interviewer . The undefined numbers have now been assigned generic codes.

    11. For the adult_risk_gender variable "B" was unexplained, and has been assumed to mean "Both".

    Data Access

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

    Licensed use files, available for non-commercial use only
    Citation requirements

    Violence Prevention for Urban Upgrading Project. Violence Prevention for Urban Upgrading 2012 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Cape Town: VPUU [producer], 2013. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/xcjn-8x69

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Copyright

    (c) VPUU

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org http://www.support.data1st.org/helpdesk

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    ddi-zaf-datafirst-vpuu-2012-v1
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-04-29

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 2
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