{"doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata Producers"}],"prod_date":"2026-10","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"zaf-uct-logicmb-2022-2023-v1","title":"Living Off-Grid Infrastructure Collaboration 2022-2023, Mossel Bay","translated_title":"LOGIC 2022-2023, Mossel Bay","identifiers":[{"type":"doi","identifier":"10.25828/12Z7-YQ84"}]},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Institute of Development Studies"},{"name":"University of Cape Town"}],"production_statement":{"funding_agencies":[{"name":"UK Research and Innovation","abbr":"UKRI","role":"Funding agency"}]},"version_statement":{"version":"v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution","version_date":"2026-10"},"bib_citation":"Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration 2022-2023, Mossel Bay [dataset]. Version 1. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies; South Africa: University of Cape Town [producers], 2026. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/12Z7-YQ84","study_info":{"abstract":"The Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration (LOGIC) is a multi-country, multi-institution research collaboration led by the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and including experts in urban research from Africa and Asia. Partners are the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, the University of Ghana, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and the Colombo Urban Lab in Sri Lanka. The LOGIC research is designed to help improve the lives of the poorest residents of cities in Africa and Asia by focusing on how they are meeting their basic needs and accessing infrastructure, particularly when they are living 'off-grid'. The project covers five main types of infrastructure - water, sanitation, energy, transport, and communications. The research focuses on one important way of understanding whether and how basic needs are being met: access to and the availability of sufficient, diverse, and nutritious diets. The LOGIC team studied the social and material systems that drive food and infrastructure access across five cities, three in Africa (Tamale, Ghana; Mossel Bay, South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe) and two in Asia (Bengaluru, India; Colombo, Sri Lanka). The LOGIC project is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). More information can be found on the LOGIC website https://www.ids.ac.uk/projects/rethinking-the-off-grid-city/","coll_dates":[{"start":"2022-07","end":"2022-07","cycle":"Household interviews"},{"start":"2023-08","end":"2023-08","cycle":"Food Plate interviews"}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"geog_coverage":"The data covers the metropolitan area of Mossel Bay, South Africa","geog_unit":"The lowest level of geographic aggregation is the metro for household and individual-level data, and suburb for community-level data","analysis_unit":"Communities, households and individuals","universe":"The universe of the study was households in Mossel Bay, South Africa"},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"Cross-section [cross section]","data_collectors":[{"name":"University of Ghana"}],"coll_mode":"Face-to-face paper and pen interview [face-to-face]"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"https://datafirst.uct.ac.za/"}],"cit_req":"Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration 2022-2023, Mossel Bay [dataset]. Version 1. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies; South Africa: University of Cape Town [producers], 2026. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/12Z7-YQ84"}}},"schematype":"survey","type":"survey","data_files":[],"variables":[],"variable_groups":[]}