DataFirst - Harmonised SA Dataset Series

This collection includes harmonised stacked datasets create by Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg at DataFirst, along with other collaborators. The collection currently includes two harmonised datasets. First, the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS) 1993-2025 is a harmonised stacked dataset using data from the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development conducted by SALDRU at the University of Cape Town, as well as cross-sectional labour market surveys conducted by South Africa's government statistics agency, Statistics South Africa, from 1994 to 2025. Second, the Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series (PASES) 1995-2024 is a stacked series containing data from 28 nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys conducted by Statistics South Africa, including the October Household Surveys conducted every year between 1995-1999 and the General Household Surveys conducted every year since 2002.