http://hdl.handle.net/11090/796 In the initial planning phases of NIDS, SALDRU commissioned a series of Planning Papers highlighting important socio-economic issues in South Africa. 2026-03-14T19:46:37Z http://hdl.handle.net/11090/806 Surveying Commercial & Subsistence Agriculture Conradie, Beatrice At the last count agriculture employed twice as many people as the mining sector and about four fifths of the number employed in the manufacturing sector. Together with domestic work, farm work is often seen as employment of last resort, a quasi-formal sector on the fringes of respectability. Much has been done since 1994 to improve job security, working conditions and, since 2003, pay for farm workers, but inadequate farm data allow only the sketchiest tracking of this process. Income dynamics in agriculture are important for various reasons : On the commercial side, farming has put been under pressure by falling product prices in a global market and rising costs of production (Barrientos & Kritzinger, 2004). For land reform reasons it is important to know if commercial farming is viable. At the same time workers are supposed to have benefited from farm labour market reforms, but with a few small exceptions (Du Toit & Ally, 2003; Conradie, 2007) we simply do not know to what extent this has happened. On the subsistence side, ASGISA has identified agriculture as a key industry in the second economy (Mlambo-Ngcuka, 2006). We need good baseline data on subsistence agriculture and ongoing collection of reliable statistics to monitor the success of this initiative. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11090/805 Suggestions for the Education Module of the South Africa National Income Dynamics Study Ardington, Cally; Lam, David There can be little question that education plays a fundamental role in income dynamics, and that it should be an important focus of the National Income Dynamics Study. In preparing this document, we have been motivated by two basic questions. First, what are the key research and policy questions related to education in South Africa, especially in relation to income dynamics? Second, what dimensions of education are particularly well suited to analysis using longitudinal data of the type that will be collected in NIDS? 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11090/804 Shocks, Assets and Credit Keswell, Malcolm; Burns, Justine Well functioning credit and insurance markets, in many respects, obviates the need for public policy that is oriented at providing support to households when they face economic hardship. But when the market for cheap informal credit is altogether absent, risk-averse (poorer) households will generally respond to such risks by adopting strategies that have long term consequences for their well being. 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11090/803 Questions on Demography for the National Income Dynamic Study Moultrie, Tom This briefing paper sets out proposed questions for the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) that will ensure that the study will be able to answer questions relating to the intersection between demographic variables and the key foci of NIDS. The questions proposed have been selected for their relevance to the overarching goals of NIDS, and hence – while limited in number – are all regarded as highly important. Justifications for the inclusion of each question are provided. In addition to the suggested questions for inclusion, we discuss the merits of including a birth history module (and how to maintain it in subsequent rounds); a retrospective death module; as well as the utility (or otherwise) of using information from Road to Health Cards. 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z