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Survey of Employers and Self-Employed 2005

South Africa, 2005
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ZAF_2005_SESE_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Dec 20, 2012
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ZAF_2005_SESE_v01_M
    Title

    Survey of Employers and Self-Employed 2005
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa ZAF
    Study type

    Enterprise/Establishment Survey [en/oth]
    Abstract

    The Survey of Employers and the Self-employed (SESE) was conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in September 2005.

    • to collect data on micro- and small businesses in South Africa, their operation and access to services
    • to collect income tax information on non-VAT paying businesses.
    • to determine the contribution of these businesses to the economic growth of the country
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Units of analysis in the survey include individuals and enterprises

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution
    Version Date

    2012-07-16
    Version Notes

    Version one of the Survey of Employers & Self-Employed was originally released by Statistics South Africa in November 2006. In July 2012 Datafirst added value and variable labels to each datafile, based on the metadata originally provided by Statistics South Africa, to create this version of the dataset (version 1.1).

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey collected background data on small businesses and their operations, including their premises, the establishment of the business and start-up finance. Data was also collected on business production and the workforce, expenditure, capital and transport.
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    business/industrial management and organisation [2.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    working conditions [3.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey had national coverage
    Geographic Unit

    The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the SESE 2005 data is Province.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Statistics South Africa

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The focus of the survey was businesses who are not registered for Value Added Tax (VAT). These small and micro-businesses are generally excluded from the business frame which is used in surveys of the formal economy conducted by Statistics South Africa. Currently, there is no sampling frame on which to base weights and raising factors for small unregistered businesses in South Africa. As a result, the research design used for SESE was a household based survey, consisting of two stages. The first stage involved using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) enumeration to identify individuals who were running unregistered businesses. The second stage involved follow-up interviews with the owners of these businesses by QLFS enumerators. The QLFS data was collected in the middle two weeks of the month throughout the quarter. The SESE questionnaire was then administered to individuals in relevant households in the last week of the month, also throughout the quarter.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The questionnaire covered background data on the small business (from questions 4 to 17 of the questionnaire) and its business operations, including the premises, the establishment of the business and start-up finance (question 18 to 39). Data is also collected on production and the workforce (question 40 to 54), expenditure (question 55 to 56), business capital (question 57 to 61) and transport (question 62 to 63).

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2005-09 2005-09

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za info@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public use files, accessible to all
    Citation requirements

    Statistics South Africa. Survey of Employers & Self-Employed [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2006. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
    Copyright

    Copyright, Statistics South Africa

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Manager, DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ZAF_2005_SESE_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town DDI Producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-07-16

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01: Adopted from "ddi-zaf-datafirst-sese-2005-v1" DDI that was done by metadata producer mentioned in "Metadata Production" section.
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