National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS)¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	household or labour survey microdata
Producer	SALDRU, University of Cape Town
Coverage	2008-
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Living standards, health and social policy	3
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Abel (2014a)	National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) 2008 wave	2008	Shows trust levels are nearly identical in urban and rural areas, justifying that urbanicity is not driving the result.
Abel (2014b)	National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) 2008	2008	Used to argue trust levels towards neighbors and strangers are nearly identical in urban and rural areas, countering a density confound.
Mariotti (2012a)	National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 1, 2008 (adult sample, derived household file)	2008 survey; respondents born c.1941-1990	Supplies measured adult height, education, health measures and birth year/location for the difference-in-difference analysis.
Mariotti (2012b)	National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 1, 2008 adult sample and derived household data file	2008 (Wave 1; released July 2009); birth cohorts 1941-1990	Supplies adult height, birth year and district, education and health measures for the difference-in-difference regressions on the 1976-77 birth cohorts.
Mariotti (2012c)	NIDS derived household data file (province and district council of household)	2008	Supplements adult data to recover birth district for the 9,543 respondents who never moved, so the treatment variable can be built.
Mariotti (2012c)	National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 1, 2008, adult sample	2008 survey (released July 2009); respondents born 1941-1990	Supplies heights, birth year and location, education and health measures for the difference-in-difference regressions on adult outcomes of Africans born in homeland districts.
Seekings (2010)	National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), wave 1, 2008	2008	Used to calculate the 2008 class structure (Figure 2), comparing household and income shares of upper, middle and lower classes with 1993.