Community Survey 2016 - South Africa

Abstract
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The Community Survey is a nationally representative, large-scale household survey which is designed to provide information on the extent of poor households in South Africa, their access to services, and levels of unemployment, at national, provincial and municipal levels. The main objectives of the survey are:
1. To fill data gaps between national population and housing censuses
2. To provide estimates at lower geographical levels than existing household surveys
3. To build capacities for the next census round
4. To provide inputs to the mid-year population projections.

Geographic coverage
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The survey covered the whole of South Africa.

Analysis unit
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Households

Universe
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The Community Survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents) in South Africa. The survey excluded collective living quarters (institutions) and some households in EAs classified as recreational areas or institutions.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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The sampling procedure that was adopted for the CS was a two-stage stratified random sampling process. Stage one involved the selection of enumeration
areas, and stage tw0 was the selection of dwelling units. Since the data are required for each local municipality, each municipality was considered as an explicit stratum. The stratification is done for those municipalities classified as category B municipalities (local municipalities) and category A municipalities (metropolitan areas) as proclaimed at the time of Census 2001. However, the newly proclaimed boundaries as well as any other higher level of geography such as province or district municipality, were considered as any other domain variable based on their link to the smallest geographic unit - the enumeration area.

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The CS 2016 questionnaire consisted of six main sections, 11 sub-sections and a total of 225 questions. A first draft of the paper questionnaire was developed in February 2015 and various versions were reviewed and updated thereafter based on discussions with stakeholders. The target population of the survey was all persons in the sampled dwelling who were present on the reference night (i.e. the night between 6 and 7 March 2016). The final CAPI questionnaire was made up of three person rosters. One roster was utilised for the person information, one roster for emigration and one roster for mortality.

Data appraisal
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The Community Survey 2016 data was released in 2017. There are four data files. These are files for households, persons, mortality, and emigration. The emigration file is currently not available. Statistics SA has not provided an explanation for the missing file. DataFirst is working to obtain this file, and will add the data file to the dataset we publish once we have it.

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.

摘要
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社区调查是一项具有全国代表性的大规模家庭调查，旨在提供有关南非贫困家庭程度、服务获取情况以及失业率的信息，涵盖国家、省级和市级层面。该调查的主要目标包括：
1. 弥补国家人口普查和住房普查之间的数据空白
2. 提供比现有家庭调查更低地理层面的估计值
3. 为下一轮普查积累能力
4. 为年中人口预测提供数据输入。
地理覆盖范围
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调查覆盖了整个南非。
分析单元
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家庭
总体
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社区调查覆盖了南非所有法定家庭成员（常住居民）。调查排除了集体居住区（机构）以及某些被归类为休闲娱乐区或机构的EA中的家庭。
数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]
抽样程序
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社区调查采用的抽样程序是一个两阶段的分层随机抽样过程。第一阶段涉及抽选统计区域，第二阶段是抽选住宅单元。由于所需数据针对每个地方市政局，每个市政局被视为一个明确的层。分层是根据2001年普查时宣布的B类市政局（地方市政局）和A类市政局（大都市区）进行的。然而，新宣布的边界以及任何其他更高层次的地理区域，如省份或地区市政局，都被视为任何其他域变量，基于其与最小地理单元——统计区域的关联。
数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]
研究工具
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2016年的社区调查问卷由六个主要部分、11个子部分和总共225个问题组成。最初的纸质问卷草案于2015年2月开发，随后根据与利益相关者的讨论进行了多次审查和更新。调查的目标人口是样本住宅中在参考之夜（即2016年3月6日至7日之夜）在场的人员。最终的CAPI问卷由三个人名清单组成。一个人名清单用于个人信息，一个人名清单用于移民，一个人名清单用于死亡率。
数据评估
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2016年社区调查数据于2017年发布。共有四个数据文件。这些文件分别是家庭、个人、死亡和移民文件。移民文件目前不可用。南非统计局尚未提供缺失文件的解释。DataFirst正在努力获取此文件，并在获取后将其添加到我们发布的数据集中。
社区调查2016还缺失就业和收入数据。就业类型和就业状态数据是通过问卷的第3.7.6至3.7.6.24题收集的。收入数据是通过问卷的第3.7.7至3.7.7.4题收集的。据南非统计局称，由于收集方法的变化，这些问题的数据无法与季度劳动力市场调查中的就业和收入数据进行比较，因此未发布这些数据。