Discussion Papers Discussion Papers

In the initial planning phases of NIDS, SALDRU commissioned a series of Planning Papers highlighting important socio-economic issues in South Africa. Whilst standing in their own right, as a set they ...

Announcements Announcements

NIDS-CRAM is a special follow up with a sub-sample of Wave 5 NIDS household members on the current global Coronavirus pandemic and the associated national lockdown. Visit NIDS-CRAM.  ...

Training & Outreach Training & Outreach

NIDS Hosts 3-day Panel Data Course NIDS hosted a 3-day Panel Data Course from 3- 5 December 2018 at UCT’s School of Economics. The course provided an introduction to analysing the NIDS Wave 1...

NIDS in the Media NIDS in the Media

South Africa can – and should – top up child support grants to avoid a humanitarian crisis In this article published in The Conversation in March, Ihsaan Bassier, Josh Budlender, Prof. ...

DPME                       SALDRU

New versions of Wave 1, Wave 2,  Wave 3 and Wave 4 are now available, including Admin Data. Data cleaning has been ongoing since the last release and new variables have been added.  Please download the latest data.  The data sets are available in Stata format only. Previously, the data was made available in R, SAS and SPSS. However all these programs now have a functionality to import Stata files.

39 400

individuals interviewed in 2017

10 800

households interviewed in 2017

12 years

since inception