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Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (SALDRU/World Bank household survey)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind household or labour survey microdata
Producer SALDRU, University of Cape Town / World Bank
Coverage 1993
Works using it 10

Project holdings

The project holds this source in full. See Population & Demographics.

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Education, Bantu Education and skills 2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Living standards, health and social policy 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Anderson et al. (2001) South African Living Standards Survey (SALSS) 1993 August-December 1993 Provides educational attainment, enrollment, earnings and family structure (e.g. co-residence with parents) and underlies Case and Deaton's school quality results.
Di McIntyre et al. (1995) Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (1994) household survey 1993/94 (SALDRU), preliminary analysis 1993/94 Profile of poverty, health provider use by income quintile, reasons for not consulting, and spending of poorest quintile.
Hofmeyr and Lucas (1998) 1993 household survey, SALDRU/World Bank (Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development) 1993 Supplies 1993 earnings, employment category and direct union membership data for urban African males, compared with 1985 to measure the change in union premia.
Kingdon and Knight (1999) SALDRU survey cluster characteristics and community data (roads, transport, facilities, religion) 1993 Cluster characteristics are wage-equation controls (TARROAD, DISFACI) and the source of instruments for 2SLS.
Kingdon and Knight (1999) SALDRU survey cluster food prices combined with CPI weights 1993 Builds a regional price index to deflate wages, assuming uniform non-food prices.
Kingdon and Knight (1999) SALDRU survey cognitive skill test scores 1993 Considered as a proxy for schooling quality but rejected because of selective test administration.
Kingdon and Knight (1999) South African Living Standards Survey (SALDRU/World Bank integrated household survey), 1993 Second half of 1993 Sole micro dataset: supplies individual wages, hours, characteristics, cluster unemployment rates and cluster characteristics for the wage-curve regressions (6498 wage workers).
Mariotti and Fourie (2014) PSLSD 1993 household survey (Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development) 1993 Identified as the first inclusive household survey, which marks the start of comprehensive microdata.
McIntyre et al. (1995) Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (1994), SALDRU household survey 1993/94 (with Klasen and Doherty 1995 preliminary analysis) 1993/94 Profiles the poor, health-provider use by income quintile, malnutrition, and barriers to care from fees.
Moll (1996b) Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (PSLSD) 1993 microdata 1993 Used for mean family income by child's schooling and the 1993 Gini and white/black earnings ratio in the policy discussion.
Schultz and Mwabu (1998a) SALDRU/World Bank 1993 national household survey (Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development), as described in SALDRU 1994, South Africans Rich and Poor: Baseline Household Statistics August-December 1993 Sole microdata source for all wage, union-status, and time-allocation regressions (OLS, quantile, logit, multinomial logit).
Schultz and Mwabu (1998b) SALDRU/World Bank 1993 national household survey (Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development), as described in SALDRU 1994, South Africans Rich and Poor: Baseline Household Statistics August-December 1993 Sole microdata for the wage, union status, employment and time-allocation regressions: 43,974 individuals from 9,000 households.
Wilson (2011) Project for Statistics on Living Standards & Development (PSLSD), South Africans Rich & Poor: Baseline Household Statistics, SALDRU, 1993/94, Tables 3.5-3.7 1993 Provides educational attainment by race (years of schooling) to show embedded racial inequality in human capital in 1993.