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October Household Survey

Literature › Primary sources
Kind household or labour survey microdata
Producer Central Statistical Service / Statistics South Africa
Coverage 1994-1999
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Census, race classification and demographic data 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Anderson et al. (2001) October Household Survey 1995 (OHS), Statistics South Africa 1995 Main data for schooling by age, race and gender, grade progress, enrollment, work, family background, school expenditure and earnings by schooling (Figures 1-4, Tables 1, 3, 4).
Carrillo et al. (2023a) October Household Survey 1994/1995 1994-1995 Constructs a pseudo-panel of women's fertility histories to test whether families changed fertility around homeland establishment.
Carrillo et al. (2023b) October Household Survey 1994 and 1995 1994-1995 Retrospective birth histories for women are used to build a pseudo-panel testing for pre-formalization fertility changes.
Kok et al. (2006) October Household Survey 1994–1999 1994–1999 Used for urban share of Africans and non-Africans and access to basic amenities (Figures 5.8–5.9).
Moll (1996a) October Household Survey 1994 (microdata), Central Statistical Service 1994 Used for industry-by-industry Mincerian wage regressions with a union dummy to compare union wage effects in IC and non-IC industries.
Vink and Kirsten (2001) October Household Survey 1994-1997 (CSS Statistical Release P0317.10, 1998) 1994-1997 Alternative employment data showing agricultural employment possibly stable or rising; the CSS release shows a drop that the authors suspect reflects exclusion of part-time and seasonal work.
Zuberi et al. (2005) October Household Surveys 1995, 1997, 1998 (national samples of 30,000/20,000 households) 1995-1998 Provides birth histories and mortality reports for P/F, Gompertz and orphanhood analyses.