McLennan, David and Roberts, Benjamin J.
(2018).
Linked spatial-attitudinal dataset for South Africa.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Archive.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-851573
This project is a collaboration between researchers from the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP) at the University of Oxford and the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).
The main aim of the project is to investigate whether citizens' attitudes to inequality in South Africa are associated with their experience of inequality at the local level. Analyses will be undertaken using two currently under-utilised micro-datasets in South Africa. Attitudinal perspectives on inequality will be explored using the nationally representative South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). The unequal spatial distribution of poverty and deprivation will be explored using the South African Indices of Multiple Deprivation (SAIMD) which are derived from the 2001 Census and the 2007 Community Survey (CS 2007).
The analysis of these microdata will be used to gain a better appreciation of the spatial patterns of poverty, deprivation and inequality, the nature and distribution of attitudes to economic inequality and redistribution, and importantly the relationship between them. The project will also build quantitative data analysis skills among social researchers in South Africa. The findings will be used to promote discussion about policies and programmatic interventions to address deprivation, poverty and inequality.
Data description (abstract)
This dataset consists of the individual-level survey data (from the South African Social Attitudes Survey 2009) plus linked area-level data concerning exposure to socio-economic inequality and neighbourhood poverty rates. These data have been anonymised by rounding the area-level variables and replacing the area-level identifier codes with new unique identifiers to ensure respondent confidentiality.
| Data creators: |
| Creator Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| McLennan David |
University of Oxford |
|
| Roberts Benjamin J. |
Human Sciences Research Council |
|
|
| Contributors: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Noble Michael |
|
|
|
| Sponsors: |
ESRC
|
| Grant reference: |
ES/I034889/1
|
| Topic classification: |
Social welfare policy and systems
Demography (population, vital statistics and censuses)
Social stratification and groupings
Society and culture
|
| Keywords: |
Inequality, Poverty, Deprivation, Spatial, Geographical, Attitudes, Social, South Africa
|
| Project title: |
The relationship between Spatial Inequality and Attitudes to Inequality in South Africa
|
| Grant holders: |
David McLennan, Benjamin J. Roberts, Michael Noble, Temba Masilela
|
| Project dates: |
| From | To |
|---|
| 1 October 2011 | 30 April 2014 |
|
| Date published: |
19 Nov 2014 17:09
|
| Last modified: |
30 Jul 2018 13:11
|
| Temporal coverage: |
| From | To |
|---|
| 1 January 2001 | 31 December 2009 |
|
| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
|---|
| 1 October 2011 | 30 April 2014 |
|
| Geographical area: |
South Africa |
| Country: |
South Africa |
| Spatial unit: |
Other |
| Data collection method: |
The individual-level survey respondent data were taken from the 2009 round of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (please see http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/departments/sasas for more details). The linked area-level data on 'exposure to inequality' were constructed as part of this particular research project (please see http://www.casasp.ox.ac.uk/esrc_inequality.html for more details) while the neighbourhood poverty rate variable was taken from the South African Index of Multiple Deprivation 2001 at Datazone level (please see http://www.casasp.ox.ac.uk/indices.html#SAIMD01 for more details) |
| Observation unit: |
Individual |
| Kind of data: |
Numeric |
| Type of data: |
Cross-national survey data, Geospatial data
|
| Resource language: |
English |
|
| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
The Datazone area-level variables were attached to the individual SASAS survey respondents records via the respondents' home Enumeration Area codes (as Enumeration Areas nest within Datazones). The survey dataset was split into two subgroups: one for people categorised as 'poor' and one for people categorised as 'non-poor'. Most of the survey variables in the dataset were taken directly from SASAS, but a small number of variables in the dataset were derived by combining or averaging separate variables in SASAS to form composite scores. The data available from ReShare have been anonymised to protect survey respondent confidentiality.
|
| Rights owners: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| McLennan David |
University of Oxford |
|
| Roberts Benjamin J. |
Human Sciences Research Council |
|
|
| Contact: |
| Name | Email | Affiliation | ORCID (as URL) |
|---|
| McLennan, David | david.mclennan@spi.ox.ac.uk | University of Oxford | Unspecified |
|
| Publisher: |
UK Data Archive
|
| Last modified: |
30 Jul 2018 13:11
|
|
Available Files
Data
Documentation
Edit item (login required)
 |
Edit Item |
