[OSGeo Africa] Census Shape Files

[Calle Hedberg]

Hi,

StatsSA's use of this outdated structure is a pain in the butt, actually -
if you look at almost all other government activities, the logical structure
would be province->District->municipality (which usually include
sub-districts in metro areas) -> council ward -> enumeration areas. The
government's integrated "War on poverty" is for instance largely ward-based,
and most community outreach activities are ward-based.

If you actually LOOK at the sub-place names, in particular, you find that
many of them don't relate to local names in actual use.

Regards
calle



-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Adi Eyal
Sent: 03 December 2012 08:56 AM
To: Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Census Shape Files

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
>> linkedin: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal
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Adi Eyal
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skype: adieyalcas
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