South Africa - Networks and Employment Transitions Study 2002

This data, Networks and Employment Transitions Study (NETS), is a construction of a panel data set based on the KwaZulu Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) and a sub-sample of the KIDS households. The resulting data set thus contains a partial third wave of the original KwaZulu Natal households of the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (PSLSD) and is meant to represent the baseline sample of the Networks and Employment Transitions Study (NETS). NETS is essentially a study of labour market dynamics that takes advantage of the panel structure of the KIDS data. NETS is primarily about transitions out of unemployment into employment. Thus the population of individuals we were interested in following over time were those who classified themselves as unemployed in the first wave of KIDS. The final sample frame for this study was comprised of individuals who were unemployed in 1993, but who were observed as either unemployed or employed in 1998.