KwaZulu-Natal [South Africa] Development Indicators Household Survey, 1996 (M1066V1)

This project commissioned by the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government was designed to obtain baseline data on subjective and objective development indicators. The project comprised a household survey conducted during November and December 1996. The complete survey covered at least 6 500 households across the province of KwaZulu-Natal. It followed a pilot study of perceptions of development conducted among 678 adults in October 1995. As one of the most comprehensive contributions on development indicators in the history of South Africa, it is the first large survey covering the usual “hard” indicators – such as service delivery levels – and peoples’ comments and perceptions of these services and of their governments’ development programmes and priorities. The study/project was motivated by the need to establish an information database for the preparation and monitoring of the province’s RDP business and development plans, to synthesise subjectively articulated (bottom-up) and objectively defined (top-down) approaches to the determination of needs, to modify and improve on the usefulness of the Human Development Index (HDI), to provide an opportunity for research capacity building among civil servants and thereby providing a means to effect good governance practices and, to provide a basis for the development of objective matrices, objectives-by-time-scales and, a semi-rational budgeting and planning tool. 1 data file with 6,606 cases.

本项目由夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省政府（KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government）委托，旨在获取主观与客观发展指标的基线数据。本项目包含1996年11月至12月实施的住户调查，该调查覆盖夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省内至少6500户家庭。本次调查接续1995年10月针对678名成年人开展的发展认知试点研究。作为南非历史上针对发展指标的最全面研究成果之一，本项目是首次大规模调查，既涵盖了常规的"hard"指标（如服务交付水平），也收录了民众对相关服务、政府发展规划及施政优先事项的评价与认知。本研究/项目的设立初衷包括：为该省重建与发展计划（RDP）业务与发展规划的制定与监测搭建信息数据库；整合主观表述（自下而上）与客观界定（自上而下）的需求判定方法；优化并提升人类发展指数（HDI）的应用价值；为公务员群体提供研究能力建设契机，进而为落实良好治理实践提供支撑；为构建客观指标矩阵、分阶段目标体系以及半理性化预算与规划工具提供基础。本项目配套1份包含6606条样本的数据文件。