I require data on household food expenditure of the rural poor in South Africa for my research. I have tried STATSSA and all other mainstream databases such as World Bank, etc. STATSSA has the Living Conditions Survey publication but they are not making the raw data sets available. Any ideas where I can find a credible data set?
There are several sources in South Africa but all of them require work. The primary source is the IES, several rounds. The Living Conditions Survey (LCS) module might be useful too. In addition to the official sources, we are not sufficiently exploring the power of NIDS in capturing food expenditure and linking it to its basic BMI scores (a proxy for nutritional outcome of foods consumed). At a more technical level, however, the official STATSSA data sets allow for some data fusion techniques to create a "synthetic panels" that will merge strengths of GHS, IES, QLFS and LCS. Investment of efforts in this venture will certainly break new grounds in SA FNS metrics.
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