Exploring Statistics South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about household-level food security

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dc.date.accessioned 2010-01-18 en
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-22T19:02:49Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-22T19:02:49Z
dc.date.issued 2015-08-25 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4423
dc.description.abstract This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of household-level food security in South Africa using publicly available household survey data from Statistics South Africa. The two datasets that are used in particular are the General Household Survey, an annual household survey that began in 2002, and the Income and Expenditure Survey of 2005/06. Because these surveys are not designed for the analysis of household-level food security, it is not possible to do the kind of detailed analysis made possible by purpose-designed surveys. However these datasets have some value in respect of understanding food security, namely: large sample sizes; the depth of complementary types of information that assist in contextualising the experience of food insecurity and, in the case of the General Household Survey, regularity. Among the findings are a decline in the experience of hunger during the period 2002-2007, and significantly lower food expenditure per capita in rural areas, suggesting a greater extent of 'self-provisioning' than is commonly assumed. en
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dc.subject FOOD SECURITY en
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS en
dc.subject POVERTY en
dc.title Exploring Statistics South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about household-level food security en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 48(4) en
dc.BudgetYear 2009/10 en
dc.SourceTitle Agrekon en
dc.ArchiveNumber 6184 en
dc.URL http://ktree.hsrc.ac.za/doc_read_all.php?docid=4001 en
dc.PageNumber 384-388 en
dc.outputnumber 4833 en
dc.bibliographictitle Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring Statistics South Africas national household surveys as sources of information about household-level food security. Agrekon. 48(4):384-388. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4423 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4423 en
dc.publicationyear 2009 en
dc.contributor.author1 Aliber, M. en


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