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Domestic Tourism Survey 2010

South Africa, 2010
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ZAF_2010_DTS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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    Survey ID number

    ZAF_2010_DTS_v01_M

    Title

    Domestic Tourism Survey 2010

    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa ZAF
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

    Abstract

    Statistics South Africa provides data on international tourism based on secondary data obtained from the South African Department of Home Affairs. The information from this data used by stakeholders to measure and understand international tourism in South Africa. Detailed information about national domestic tourism is limited, however and there was a need to collect more detailed information on domestic tourism in order to better understand and measure the contribution of the tourism industry towards the national economy. The Domestic Tourism Survey (DTS) is aimed at addressing this need by collecting accurate statistics on the travel behaviour and expenditure of South African residents travelling within and outside the borders of South Africa. Such information is crucial in determining the contribution of tourism to the South African economy as well as helping with planning, marketing, policy formulation and regulation of tourism-related activities.

    This survey provides data on domestic tourism activity during the period December 2009 - May 2010. For, this in addition to the basic demographic information collected in the majority of household surveys conducted by Statistics South Africa, the DTS covers five areas specifically related to travel and expenditure patterns. These include trips taken by the household, domestic day trips by the respondent and/or other household members, domestic day trips by other household members (without the respondent), domestic overnight trips by the respondent and/or other household members, domestic overnight trips by other household members (without the respondent).

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    The units of analysis in the Domestic Tourism Survey are households and individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution

    Version Date

    2011

    Version Notes

    Version 1 of the Domestic Tourism Survey 2009 downloaded from Statistics South Africa's website on 30 January 2012 did not have value labels.
    This version, version 1.1, values labels have been added by DataFirst on 29 May 2012.

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the Domestic Tourism Survey 2010 includes: household characteristcs, household listing, education, tourism employment, trips taken, day trips, overnight trips, barriers to taking trips, business and professional trips, recreation entertainment, sports trips, nature based trips, religious trips, medical trips, type of transport, expenditure on trips, and social activites

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    leisure, tourism and sport [13.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Geographic Unit

    The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province.

    Universe

    The target population of the survey consists of all private households and residents in workers' hostels in the nine provinces of South Africa. The survey does not cover other collective living quarters such as students' hostels, oldage homes, hospitals, prisons and military barracks and is therefore only representative of non-institutionalised and non-military persons in South Africa.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Statistics South Africa

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    For the Domestic Tourism Survey 2010 Statistics South Africa used a sample design developed by their Methodology and Evaluation division. This sample frame can be used as a general-purpose household survey frame for all household surveys, irrespective of the sample size requirement of the survey. Stats SA's household-based surveys use a master sample of 3 080 primary sampling units (PSUs) made up from the 80 787 enumeration areas (EAs) created for the 2001 Population Census.

    The survey had two reference periods. Half of the sampled dwelling units were visited during April 2010 using the reference period i.e. from December 2009 to February 2010. Collection that took place in May/June 2010 used the reference period of March to May 2010. The DTS 2010 sample was designed to be representative at provincial level and within provinces at metro/non-metro level. Within the metros, the sample is further distributed according to geographical type. The four geography types are: urban formal, urban informal, farms, and tribal areas. The sample for the DTS 2010 was based on a stratified two-stage design, with probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling of PSUs in the first stage, and sampling of dwelling units (DUs) with systematic sampling in the second stage.

    Response Rate

    The eligible households in the sampled dwellings can be divided into two response categories: respondents and non-respondents.

    a) Respondents: This category consists of eligible households in the sampled dwellings that completed the survey questionnaire and provided usable survey responses.
    b) Non-respondents: These are the eligible households in the sampled dwellings that did not complete the questionnaire, e.g. refusal, no contact, temporarily absent.

    In general, the non-response adjustment was applied at PSU level and only in those cases where the nonresponse at the PSU level was too large, the non-response adjustment was applied at the stratum level.

    Weighting

    Sampling weights for the data collected from the sampled households are constructed so that responses can be expanded appropriately to represent the entire population of South Africa. The weights are the result of calculations involving several factors, including design weights, adjustment for non-response, and benchmarking to known population estimates from the Demographic Analysis division of Stats SA. The final survey weights are constructed by calibrating the adjusted base weight to the known population counts at national and provincial levels (which are supplied by the Demographic Analysis division of Statistics SA), cross-classified by 5-year age groups (0-4, 5-9, 10-14, 55-59, 60-64, and 65 and over), gender and race. The provincial population estimates are cross-classifiedby broad age groups (0-14, 15-34, 35-64, and 65 years and over). The calibrated weights are constructed to ensure that all persons in a household have the same final weight (integrated weighting).

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Household Questionnaire: This includes sections on:
    Household characteristcs, household listing, education, tourism employment, trips taken, day trips, overnight trips, barriers to taking trips, business and professional trips, recreation entertainment, sports trips, nature based trips, religious trips, medical trips, type of transport, expenditure on trips, social activites.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2010-04-12 2010-04-30 1
    2010-06-07 2010-06-25 2
    Data Collection Notes

    For the Domestic Tourism Survey 2009 survey officers employed and trained by Statistics SA visited the sampled dwelling units in each of the nine provinces. During the first phase of the survey, sampled dwelling units were visited and informed about the coming survey as part of the publicity campaign, which took place from 06 – 09 April 2010 and 31 May 2010 – 04 June 2010. Two hundred and thirty three (233) enumerators and 53 district coordinators participated in the survey. An additional 27 provincial quality monitors were responsible for monitoring and ensuring questionnaire quality. National training took place over a period of three days and district training was done one week later across all nine provinces for eight days.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za info@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    The Domestic Tourism Survey 2009 dataset is a licensed dataset, accessible under conditions.

    Citation requirements

    Publications based on datasets distributed by DataFirst should acknowledge relevant sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this dataset is:

    Statistics South Africa. 2011. Domestic Tourism Survey 2010 [dataset]. Pretoria. Statistics South Africa [producer]. Cape Town. DataFirst [distributor].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Copyright

    (c) 2010 , Statistics South Africa

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Manager, DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ZAF_2010_DTS_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-05-29

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01: Adopted from "ddi-zaf-datafirst-dts-2010-v1" DDI that was done by metadata producer mentioned in "Metadata Production" section.

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