The scope of the Community Survey includes:
Particulars of dwelling
Location and description of dwelling unit. This section was completed by the interviewer.
Person information
Questions on demographics, migration, general health and functioning, parental survival, education, employment, income and social grants and fertility. This section was completed for all household members and visitors who were present on the night of the 6/7th March 2016
Housing, household goods, services and crime, and agricultural activities
Perception questions on satisfaction with basic service, questions on housing, household goods and services, crime, agricultural activities and food security
Mortality: Questions on sex, age, year and month of death and maternal mortality for each member of the household who passed away 12 months prior to the reference night of the survey
However, not all the data collected has been published in the 2017 release of the Community Survey 2016 dataset. There are meant to be four data files. These are files for households, persons, mortality, and emigration. Emigration data collected included sex, age, country of residence and year moved for each member of the household who has emigrated to another country since March 2006 and is still residing there. The emigration file is currently not available, though. Statistics SA has not provided an explanation for the missing file.
The Community Survey 2016 is also missing employment and income data. Data on employment type and employment status data was collected with questions 3.7.6 - 3.7.6.24 of the questionnaire. Income data was collected with questions 3.7.7. - 3.7.7.4. According to Statistics SA, the data from these questions was not released because changes in collection methodologies resulted in this data not being comparable with the employment and income data in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey.
