NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider DataFirstMicrodata access: Register Geography South Africa (ZAF) Coverage type Country Time period covered 10/1999 - 10/1999 Series or system South Africa October Household Survey Data type Survey: HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The October Household Survey (OHS) 1999 was conducted as part of an annual series that began in 1993. The sample covered all population groups and included 140,000 individuals living in 30,000 households. The OHS covered employment, unemployment, and the informal labor market. In addition, the survey provided information on households, dwellings, births, deaths, migration, access to health and social services, safety and well-being of the household, and perceived quality of life. Keywords Absenteeism, Assets, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Cooking fuels, Dental care, Disability, Domestic migration, Education, Education access, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Food expenditures, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care services, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household heat, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Idiopathic intellectual disability, Income, Injuries, Land ownership, Languages, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Marital status, Mass media, Multiple births, Occupation codes, Occupational injuries, Occupations, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Poverty, Private social assistance, Public social assistance, Race, Sanitation, School enrollment, Summary birth history, Telephones, Traditional medicine, Training programs, Transportation, Unemployment, Vision loss, Waste disposal, Water supply, Working conditions Citation Contributors Statistics South Africa Funders Department for International Development (DFiD) (United Kingdom) South African Office of the President Publisher DataFirst Suggested citation Statistics South Africa. South Africa October Household Survey 1999. Cape Town, South Africa: DataFirst. GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 7, 2022