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  • Student ability to learn at home 
    Whitelaw, Emma; Culligan, Samantha; Branson, Nicola (2020-10)
    The rise of the Covid-19 pandemic led South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, to declare a national state of disaster on 15 March 2020. In response to the announcement, tertiary education institutions and student residences ...
  • Subjective Well-Being Adult South Africans’ Life Satisfaction (2008 - 2014) 
    Kannermeyer, Catherine (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2016-08)
    This discussion paper examines subjective well‐being using the National Income Dynamics Study. The survey is an individual level panel survey, with data collected biannually, with 4 waves available, from 2008‐2015. The ...
  • Suggestions for the Education Module of the South Africa National Income Dynamics Study 
    Ardington, Cally; Lam, David (2007-01)
    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 ...
  • Surveying Commercial & Subsistence Agriculture 
    Conradie, Beatrice (2007-01)
    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 ...
  • Understanding the National Student Financial Aid Scheme 
    Southern African Labour and Development Unit (2017-02)
    This factsheet was developed as a compendium to the F(r)ee Higher Education sheet. Recognizing that NSFAS loans are currently the government’s key strategy to facilitate higher education access among low-income students, ...
  • What and where you study matters in the labour market 
    Branson, Nicola; Culligan, Samantha; Tonini, Sara (2019-10)
    Many young people enter the labour force with limited skills due to low levels of school completion, low enrolment in post school education and training and even lower qualification completion rates. This reality stands ...
  • What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010? 
    Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid (2014-06)
    Gauging levels of welfare using data on income and expenditure while informative is limited, and can be enhanced by including non-money-metric measures. Using data from the detailed and nationally representative PSLSD ...
  • Youth friendly clinics make inroads in reducing unintended teen births in South Africa 
    Branson, Nicola; Byker, Tanya (2016-04)
    Despite widespread, freely available contraception and progressive reproductive health laws, most teen mothers report their last pregnancy as unintended or unplanned. This begs the question: Why are many sexually active ...
  • Youth unemployment and social protection 
    Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia; Bärnighausen, Till; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray (2014-06-19)
    Globally and locally, youth unemployment is on the rise, leading the ILO to warn of a “‘scarred’generation of young people” who face low rates of employment and high rates of inactivity (ILO 2013). Policymakers and researchers ...

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