[OSGeo Africa] Census Shape Files

[Adi Eyal]

Hi Suzi

The shape files that I uploaded only contain the boundaries for the
geographical units used in the census. From my understanding the
hierarchy works something like this

EA (enumeration area)
SP (sub-place - could be a small village or a suburb)
MP (main-place - are larger area, small town etc)
MN (municipality)
DC (district)
PR (province)

There hierarchy is better documented on the StatsSA website under the
2001 census section.

At the moment, StatsSA has only released partial data from the 2011
census to the municipality level. This data is scattered about their
website - mostly usefully in the PX-Web area
(http://www.statssa.gov.za/timeseriesdata/pxweb2006/dialog/statfile1.asp)
but that only contains a handful of variables. You can find other data
on Maps Alive (http://www.world-data-atlas.com/statssa/) and possibly
in other places.

In March next year (hopefully) they will release data to the sub-place
level and at some point they will release a small-area dataset (sub
sub-place level - basically they will join a bunch of EAs together to
form small-areas). I'm not sure when that will be and what format it
will be released in.

I hope that's useful - if someone understands the data and the release
schedule better, I would be happy to be corrected.

P.S. Note that some of the boundaries have changed since 2001 so you
can't rely on comparisons using data from the previous census. I'm not
certain if the 2001 data using the 2011 boundaries has been released
or not but I haven't been able to find it.

Adi

On 3 December 2012 08:24, Suzi Crossley <suzic at africoast.com> wrote:
> Is this the actual amounts – I see all the area size and the place name but
> no figures?  Am I missing this or is it not available?
>
>
>
> From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Adi Eyal
> Sent: 01 December 2012 10:29 AM
>
>
> To: Africa local chapter discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Census Shape Files
>
>
>
> Hi Helene
>
> I am in the process of filing a PAIA request to StatsSA precisely because
> information has not been forthcoming through the appropriate channels. The
> data available from the website is incomplete. If you have access to a
> secret datastore then I would be glad if you shared it with us.
>
> Adi
>
> On Dec 1, 2012 9:42 AM, "Hanlie Pretorius" <hanlie.pretorius at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for making this available.
>
> I have downloaded and looked at all the shapefiles. Excuse my
> ignorance, but where does one get the actual census data - population
> counts for example. These are not in the attributes. Can one get other
> databases to join with the spatial layers? If so, where and how?
>
> Thanks
> Hanlie
>
>  > Hi All
>>
>> In case anyone is interested. I uploaded the census 2011 shape files
>> here: http://africaopendata.org/dataset/cen
>>
>> Adi
>>
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>> Adi Eyal
>> Data Specialist
>> phone: +27 78 014 2469
>> skype: adieyalcas
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Adi Eyal
Data Specialist
phone: +27 78 014 2469
skype: adieyalcas
linkedin: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal