Welcome to the National Income Dynamics Study
The National Income Dynamic Study (NIDS), the first national panel study in South Africa has come a long way since its conception in 2006. The South African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) based at the School of Economics at UCT was tasked with this multi-million rand survey.
In 2008 the first wave of data collection began when about 300 fieldworkers spread out in all nine provinces of the country in search of the 28 000 people that formed part of the 7305 selected households. After months of data collection the next step was to analyse the data to see what important information it revealed about issues like internal migration, birth and death, savings, health, education and household spending patterns. The Wave 1 NIDS data was then made public at the end of July in 2009.
The year 2010 marks the next Wave of data collection. This time around we are going back to the same respondents that we visited in 2008. Those that have moved from their original households will be tracked if their movements are within the borders of the country. We will also interview the people that form part of these new households. Armed with state of the art data collection equipment we hope the process will run smoothly.
Release of the Data from first Wave of NIDS
SALDRU recently released the data from the first wave of the National Income Dynamics Study. A two day workshop was held in Irene, Tshwane, on 30 and 31 July to introduce academics and policy-makers to the data. Seen above are Nobubele Mata and Xolani Klaasen (from the NIDS office) with the Minister of Planning, Trevor Manuel, who was the guest speaker at the workshop dinner.
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Fieldwork and Data Collection - SALDRU requires a service provider to undertake the data collection for this survey over a 6-8 month period beginning in March 2012.
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