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School Register of Needs Survey 1996

South Africa, 1996 - 1997
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Reference ID
zaf-hsrc-srns-1996-v1.1
Producer(s)
Human Sciences Research Council
Collections
Department of Basic Education
Metadata
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Mar 06, 2012
Last modified
Dec 09, 2021
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Identification

Survey ID Number
zaf-hsrc-srns-1996-v1.1
Title
School Register of Needs Survey 1996
Country
Name Country code
South Africa zaf
Study type
Education Survey [es]
Abstract
The Department of Education commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to conduct a national survey on the locality and other information linked to all schools in South Africa.
Kind of Data
Administrative records
Unit of Analysis
Institutions

Version

Version Description
v1.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution
Version Date
1997
Version Notes
The original version of the School Register of Needs Survey was obtained by DataFirst at an unknown date between the original release and February 2012.

This version partially remedies anomalies in the original and represents a cleaner version of the data than the original, albeit with the imposition of a few assumptions. This version also adds value and variable labels where that information is available.

Most of these assumptions were made to deal with the specification of certain variable values as strings instead of integrers representing categoricals defined in the questionnaire (which serves as the only source of information for the dataset - no complete metadata is obviously available). For example, certain schools were assigned the string value "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std Senior Primary (Std Primary (Sub A - Std Senior Secondary (Std 9 - Std 10)) - Std Senior Secondary (Std 9 - Std 10))Junior Secondary (Std Secondary (Std 6 - Std 10) - Std Combined (Sub A - Std 10))", which is nonsensical. It was assumed that these values were misspecified entries which should have read "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std 2)". As such, these responses were redefined as having a value of "1", which corresponds with "Junior Primary (Sub A - Std 2)" - information gleaned from the questionnaire.

A full list of these changes is included in the the document "SRNS 1996 Variable Relabelling Process".

Scope

Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
EDUCATION [6] CESSDA Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
The survey has national coverage
Geographic Unit
GPS coordinates
Universe
The universe of the survey was all schools in South Africa

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Human Sciences Research Council
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name
National Department of Education

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1996-03-01 1997-01-01

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link
Access conditions
Public use files, available to all
Citation requirements
National Department of Education. School Register of Needs Survey 1996 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: National Department of Education [producers], 1997. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2014.DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/62f9-9p72
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
ddi-zaf-datafirst-srns-1996-v2
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Producer
Date of Metadata Production
2020-04-28
DDI Document version
Version 3
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