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Durban Large Firm Survey 2002-2003

South Africa, 2002 - 2003
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Reference ID
ZAF_2002-2003_DLFS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Durban Unicity Council, World Bank, Bureau of Market Research
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ZAF_2002-2003_DLFS_v01_M

    Title

    Durban Large Firm Survey 2002-2003

    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Enterprise/Establishment Survey [en/oth]

    Abstract

    The Durban Large Firm Survey is the result of an agreement between the Durban Unicity Council and USAID in 2000 to fund a World Bank technically-supported survey of firms in the greater Durban region. The survey, carried out between May 2002 – April 2003, involved 22 fieldworkers. These were managed by the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) at Unisa.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Units of analysis for the survey were enterprises

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution

    Version Date

    2006

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey collected general business data on the firm, and data on production, finances, purchasing, sales/marketing, business relations, human resources, and administrative/legal matters, as well as port-related data.

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    business/industrial management and organisation [2.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    labour relations/conflict [3.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Universe

    The survey covered large manufacturing firms in the Durban metropolitan area of South Africa

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Durban Unicity Council
    World Bank
    Bureau of Market Research

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    To assist fieldworkers in selecting sample units (firms) the World Bank provided the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) at Unisa with various sample frames (listings of firm names). These sample frames were used to contact firms randomly by telephone in order to set up appointments with the managing directors, managers or owners of the firms. Because no sample frame is comprehensive enough to include all firms operating in the Durban Metropolitan Area, various sample frames had to be utilized. The study was constructed to stratify industry by type, employment size group and geographic area. The sample frames had some limitations in this regard: they lacked employment size group classifications and they had a limited number of firms for certain sectors and they showed geographic location problems. In some cases information on the firms was outdated.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The eight questionnaires for the survey covered the following topics:
    Questionnaire 1: General issues (completed by md/ceo): General business information, economic policy environment, government's role in investment promotion and local economic development, corporate governance and ownership structure, parent company, corporate finance, interest rates, exports, imports and exchange rates, company tax rates, pdi (previously disadvantaged individual) participation in company ownership, future expectations, mergers/acquisitions
    Questionnaire 2: Production related issues (completed by production manager): Products manufactured, choice of location, capacity utilization, capital assets
    Questionnaire 3: Financial related issues (completed by financial manager)
    Questionnaire 4: Purchase related issues (completed by the purchasing manager): Business relations, purchase of raw materials, import duties and tariffs, import of raw materials,
    Questionnaire 5: Sales/marketing related issues (completed by sales/marketing manager): Business relations, membership of business associations, sources of information, sale of products, exports, business operations and profitability, government contracts,
    Questionnaire 6: Human resource related issues (completed by the hr manager): Recruitment, training, labour relations, labour market regulation, employment size and patterns, employees' transport infrastructure, labour cost and impact of HIV/AIDS
    Questionnaire 7: Administrative/legal related issues (completed by the administrative manager): Start-up licenses and permits, licensing and permits required to continue operations
    Questionnaire 8: Port related issues (completed by the shipping/export/marketing manager)

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2002-05 2003-04

    Data Access

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

    Public use files, accessible to all

    Citation requirements

    Durban Unicity Council. Durban Large Firm Survey 2002-2003. [dataset]. Version 1. Durban: Unicity Council, World Bank [producers] 2006. Durban: University of Kwazulu-Natal, School of Development Studies [distributor], 2011.

    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

    Copyright, Statistics South Africa

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org http://support.data1st.org/

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ZAF_2002-2003_DLFS_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-01-20

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1

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