Statistics South Africa Income and Expenditure Surveys

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	household or labour survey microdata
Producer	Statistics South Africa
Coverage	1995, 2000
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Aron and Muellbauer (2006)	Statistics South Africa, Income and Expenditure Surveys of October 1995 and October 2000	1995, 2000	Shows concentration of household spending in the top quintiles, justifying a focus on affluent households' asset access.
Wittenberg (2003a)	Alderman et al. (2000) poverty mapping; 1996 Census; October Household Surveys; 1995 Income and Expenditure Survey	1995-1996	Describes the imputation method combining the 1995 IES and 1996 census to produce poverty counts for the equitable share formula, and its provincial biases.
Wittenberg (2003b)	Alderman et al. (2000) poverty map imputation using 1996 Census, 1995 Income and Expenditure Survey and October Household Surveys	1995-1996	Describes the imputed poverty estimates that feed the local equitable share formula and their weaknesses.