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

Here you can access the NIDS Questionnaires, User Manuals, guides on how to access the data, overviews of the NIDS waves, FAQs etc.   For a wide range of publications using the NIDS data please refer to the Publications tab on this website.

In particular we strongly advise becoming thoroughly familiar with the relevant User Guide before using the NIDS data for more than practice.  It will save you a lot of effort in the long run.

Please note that the bulk of this documentation is in PDF format, you will need Adobe Acrobat or a PDF reader to view them.

39 400

individuals interviewed in 2017

10 800

households interviewed in 2017

12 years

since inception