Questionnaires
The DTS 2008 questionnaire collected data on the following topics:
Cover page Household information, response details, field staff information, result codes, etc.
Flap: Demographic information (name, sex, age, population group, etc.) and basic tourism information
Section 1: Information on trips taken by respondent and other household members in the past six months and barriers for not taking trips.
Section 2: Day trip taken by the respondent in the past six months prior to the survey interview, destination, means of transport, purpose of trip, activities on the trip, and expenditure
Section 3: Day trip taken by other household members without the respondent in the past six months prior to the survey interview, destination, means of transport, purpose of trip, activities on the trip, and expenditure.
Section 4: Domestic overnight trips taken(inside South Africa), taken by the respondent in the past sixmonths, prior to the survey interview, destination, means of transport, purpose of trip, activities on the trip, and expenditure.
Section 5: Domestic overnight trips taken by the other household member in the past six months prior to the survey interview, destination, means of transport, purpose of trip, activities on the trip, and expenditure.
Section 6: Outbound overnight trips outside South Africa, taken by the respondent in the past six months, prior to the survey interview, destination, means of transport, purpose of trip, activities on the trip, and expenditure.
Section 7: Outbound overnight trips outside South Africa, taken by the respondent in the past six months, prior to the survey interview, destination, means of transport, purpose of trip, activities on the trip, and expenditure.
Section 8: Column number of the responding person, and the language used during the interview.
All sections: Comprehensive coverage of domestic and foreign trips undertaken
Note: The DTS questionnaire had two sections for the domestic overnight trips taken by the respondent and other household members without the respondent. Thus section 4 (domestic overnight trips
by the respondent) and section 5 (domestic overnight trips by other household members without the respondent). The purpose of this split was to collect as many domestic overnight trips as possible from the
households.