Labour Force Survey 2005, September - South Africa

Abstract
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The LFS is a twice-yearly rotating panel household survey, specifically designed to measure the dynamics of employment and unemployment in South Africa. It measures a variety of issues related to the labour market,including unemployment rates (official and expanded), according to standard definitions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

All editions of the LFS have been updated (some more than once) since their release. These version changes are detailed in a document available from DataFirst (in the "external documents" section titled "LFS 2000-2008 Collated Version Notes on the South African LFS").

Geographic coverage
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National Coverage

Analysis unit
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Individuals

Universe
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The LFS sample covers the non-institutional population except for workers' hostels. However, persons living in private dwelling units within institutions are also enumerated. For example, within a school compound, one would enumerate the schoolmaster's house and teachers' accommodation because these are private dwellings. Students living in a dormitory on the school compound would, however, be excluded.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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Statistics South Africa uses a rotating panel methodology for the labour force survey. The rotating panel methodology involves visiting the same dwelling units on a number of occasions (in this instance, five at most). After the panel is established, a proportion of the dwelling units is replaced each round (in this instance, 20%). New dwelling units are added to the sample to replace those that are taken out.

Enumeration Areas (EAs) that had a household count of less than twenty-five were omitted from the census 2001 frame that was used to draw the sample of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) for the new Master Sample. Other omissions from the Master Sample frame included all institution EAs except workers, hostels, convents and monasteries. EAs from census 2001 were pooled in two stages, before and after sampling. Before sampling the criterion that was used to pool EAs was that they should contain a minimum of one hundred households. However, during listing it was discovered that there were discrepancies between the information on the database and what was on the ground.

Therefore, in the second stage of pooling, EAs that were found to have less than sixty dwelling units during listing were pooled. The Master Sample is a multi-stage stratified sample. The overall sample size of PSUs was 3000. The explicit strata were the 53 district councils/metros (DCs). The 3000 PSUs were allocated to these DCs using the power allocation method. The PSUs were then sampled using probability proportional to size principles. The measure of size used was the number of households in a PSU as calculated in the census. The sampled PSUs were listed with the dwelling unit as the listing unit. From these listings systematic samples of dwelling units per PSU were drawn. These samples of dwelling units form clusters. The size of the clusters differs depending on the specific survey requirements. The LFS uses one of the clusters that contain ten dwelling units.

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

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在2001年人口普查中，家庭数量少于二十五户的普查区域被排除在用于抽取初级抽样单位（PSU）的样本框架之外。从主样本框架中排除的其他因素包括所有非工人宿舍、修道院和修道院的机构区域。2001年的人口普查区域在两个阶段进行了合并：采样前后。在采样之前，合并普查区域的准则是一定要包含至少一百户家庭。然而，在列表编制过程中，发现数据库中的信息与实地情况存在差异。

因此，在合并的第二阶段，发现家庭数量少于六十户的普查区域被合并。主样本是一个多阶段分层样本。PSU的整体样本量为3000。显式层包括53个地区议会/大都市（DC）。3000个PSU根据幂分配方法分配给这些DC。然后，使用与规模成比例的概率原则对PSU进行抽样。所使用的规模衡量标准是在人口普查中计算的PSU家庭数量。抽样的PSU以住宅单位作为列表单位进行了编制。从这些列表中，每个PSU的住宅单位系统样本被抽取。这些住宅单位的样本形成集群。集群的大小根据具体调查要求而有所不同。LFS使用包含十个住宅单位的集群之一。', 'Mode_of_data_collection': '面对面[f2f]'}