Our Technical Papers
Technical Paper 43
Firm Size and Economic Development: Evidence from Population Censuses and Household Surveys by Andrew Kerr and Nicholas Forster
Technical Paper 42
Measuring rural households and electricity access: A comparison of national census data and small-area health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) data by Takwanisa Machemedze, Mercy Shoko, Mark Collinson and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 41
Essential Workers, Working from Home and Job Loss Vulnerability in South Africa by Andrew Kerr and Amy Thornton
You can download the classifications of essential workers and those who can work from home here, as well as the Stata code to replicate their results.
Read the summary in the BusinessDay and the Daily Maverick article.
Technical Paper 40
A comparison of the Commission for Employment Equity reports to Household Survey Data by Sarah Melville and Andrew Kerr
Technical Paper 39
Economics and Transformation: Measurements, Models, Maths and Myths by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 38
Throwing light on rural development: using nightlight data to map rural electrification in South Africa by Takwanisa Machmedze, Taryn Dinkelman, Mark Collinson, Wayne Twine and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 37
Aiming for a moving target: The dynamics of household electricity access in a developing context by Tom Harris, Mark Collinson and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 36
Changes in self-employment in the agricultural sector, South Africa: 1994-2012 by Liz Neyens and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 35
Estimating the size and impact of Affirmative Action at the University of Cape Town by Andrew Kerr, Patrizio Piraino and Vimal Ranchhod
Technical Paper 34
Tax(i)ing the poor? Commuting costs in South Africa by Andrew Kerr
Technical Paper 33
The Life Cycle of South African Manufacturing Firms by Andrew Kerr
Technical Paper 32
An introduction to the Manpower Survey Data by Andrew Kerr
Technical Paper 31
An analysis of the data quality of the Surveys of Employers and Self-Employed by Andrew Kerr
Technical Paper 30
Problems with SWIID: the case of South Africa by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 29
Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A general approach with application to South Africa by Martin Wittenberg and Murray Leibbrandt
Technical Paper 28
Recalibrating the OHSs to adjust for sampling changes by Takwanisa Machemedze, Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 27
Household formation and household size in post-apartheid South Africa: Evidence from the Agincourt sub-district 1992-2003 by Martin Wittenberg and Mark Collinson
Technical Paper 26
Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 25
Union selection effects - some inconsistent models by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 24
Non-monetary dimensions of well-being: A comment by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 23
The measurement of earnings in the post-Apartheid period: An overview by Martin Wittenberg and Farah Pirouz
Technical Paper 22
Leveraging data in African countries: Curating government microdata for research by Lynn Woolfrey
Technical Paper 21
Sampling methodology and field work changes in the october household surveys and labour force surveys by Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 20
Job Creation and Destruction in South Africa by Andrew Kerr , Martin Wittenberg and Jairo Arrow
Technical Paper 19
A Framework for Investigating Micro Data Quality, with Application to South African Labour Market Household Surveys by Reza C. Daniels
Technical Paper 18
Questionnaire Design and Response Propensities for Employee Income Micro Data by Reza C. Daniels
Technical Paper 17
Univariate Multiple Imputation for Coarse Employee Income Data by Reza C. Daniels
Technical Paper 16
The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well-being in South Africa by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 15
Re-weighting South African National Household Survey Data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach by Nicola Branson and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 14
Sample Survey Calibration: An information theoretic perspective by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 13
Weighing the value of Asset Proxies: The case of the Body Mass Index in South Africa by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 12
Re-weighting the OHS and LFS National Household Survey Data to create a consistent series over time: A Cross Entropy Estimation Approach by Nicola Branson
Technical Paper 11
Finite-Sample Bias and Inconsistency in the Estimation of Poverty Maps by Jesse Naidoo
Technical Paper 10
Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 9
October Household Survey 1994 by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 8
Nonparametric estimation when income is reported in bands and at points by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 7
Income in the October Household Survey 1994 by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 6
Grouped-Data Identification of Marital Behaviour from Repeated Cross-sections in South Africa by Grace Kumchulesi
Technical Paper 5
Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation for Incomplete Multivariate Data Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo by Miguel Lacerda, Cally Ardington & Murray Leibbrandt
Technical Paper 4
Household transitions in rural South Africa, 1996–2003 by Martin Wittenberg and Mark Collinson
Technical Paper 3
The measurement of employment status in South Africa using cohort analysis, 1994-2004 by Nicola Branson and Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 2
Research Note: Errors in the October Household Survey 1994 available from the South Africa Data Archive by Martin Wittenberg
Technical Paper 1
The mystery of South Africa’s ghost workers in 1996: Measurement and mismeasurement in the Manufacturing Census, Population Census and October Household Surveys by Martin Wittenberg
