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Living Conditions Survey 2008-2009

South Africa, 2008 - 2009
African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research
Statistics South Africa
Statistics South Africa
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Documentation

Download the questionnaires, technical documents and reports for the study
Questionnaires
Living Conditions Survey 2008/09: Household questionnaire
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Date 2008-01-01
Country South Africa
language English
publishers Statistics South Africa
Description This is the questionnaire administered for households in the survey
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Living Conditions Survey 2008/09: Household diary
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Date 2008-01-01
Country South Africa
language English
publishers Statistics South Africa
Description This is the diary given to the respondent during the survey to record weekly activities.
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Reports
Living conditions of households in SA 2008/2009
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Date 2011-09-15
Country South Africa
language English
publishers Statistics South Africa
Description This is the final report released with the survey data
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Subjective Poverty in South Africa: Findings of the Living Conditions Survey
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Country South Africa
language English
Description The "LCS 2008-2009 Subjective Poverty" is a report based on the results of the Living Conditions Survey (LCS) conducted between September 2008 and August 2009. The main aim of this survey is to provide data that will contribute to better understanding poverty in South Africa and to provide data for monitoring levels of poverty over time
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Poverty Profile of South Africa: Application of the poverty lines on the LCS
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Country South Africa
language English
Description The "LCS 2008-2009 Poverty Profile" is a report that details the poverty profile of South Africa in terms of the proportion of the population living below the poverty line, the depth and severity of poverty, as well as levels of inequality in the country. Furthermore, it provides details on the living circumstances of households in South Africa.
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Technical documents
Living Conditions Survey (LCS) 2008/09
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Date 2015
Country South Africa
language English
publishers Statistics South Africa
Description This is the metadata document giving background information on the dataset for data users. Note that version 2 has the information on inflation adjustment dates corrected to March 2009 ( page 77). The previous version incorrectly stated this date as March 2006.
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Other material
lcs-2008-2009-coicop-codes
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Date 2008-01-01
Country South Africa
language English
publishers Statistics South Africa
Description This is the COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose) code list for the classification of reported items recorded in the weekly diary during the survey. The classification is hierarchical and presented in four levels, i.e. main group level, secondary group level, third group level and detailed level. The expenditure files in the LCS 2008/09 dataset link amounts to COICOP codes.
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