Labour Force Survey 2000, February - 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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Dwelling units (households) and 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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The LFS is a twice-yearly rotating panel household survey. A rotating panel sample involves visiting the same dwelling units on a number of occasions (in this instance, five at most), and replacing a proportion of these dwelling units each round (in this instance 20%). New
dwelling units are added to the sample to replace those that are taken out. This February 2000 dataset represents the pilot study for the LFS. A sample of 10 000 households was drawn in 1 574 enumerator areas (EAs) (that is 10 households in each of the 426 non-urban EAs and 5 households in each of the 1 148 urban EAs). A two-stage sampling procedure was applied and the sample was stratified, clustered and selected to meet the requirements of probability sampling.

The sample was based on the 1996 Population Census enumerator areas and the estimated number of households from the 1996 Population Census. The sampled population excluded all prisoners in prisons, patients in hospitals, people residing in boarding houses and hotels (whether temporary or semi-permanent). The sample was explicitly stratified by province and area type (urban/rural). Within each explicit stratum the EAs were further stratified by simply arranging them in geographical order by District Council, Magisterial District and, within the magisterial district, by average household income (for formal urban areas and hostels). The allocated number of EAs was systematically selected with probability proportional to size in each stratum. The measure of size was the estimated number of households in each EA. A systematic sample of 10 households in non-urban and 5 households in urban areas was then drawn.

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

Research instrument
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Data collected includes data on households and person data (via the Flap and Section 1 of the questionnaire), worker data on persons 15-65 years (Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5). worker data collected includes labour market data, including employment in both the formal and informal sectors, and data on unemployment. Most questions in the Labour Force Survey questionnaire are pre-coded, i.e. there is a set number of choices from which one or more must be selected. Post-coding was done for open-ended questions.

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