In this paper the Total Survey Error (TSE) paradigm is combined with detailed data quality indicators to develop a framework for investigating micro data quality. The TSE framework is widely used in the survey methodology ...

In the absence of established longitudinal panel surveys in South Africa, national cross-sectional household survey data are frequently used to analyse change. When these data are stacked side by side, however, inconsistencies ...

This paper constructs a ‘synthetic panel’ from successive years of the October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys, and shows that new insights into the South African labour market are revealed when groups of ...