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Cape Town Household Survey

<div class="ExternalClass23E4624420934F79AC2B5E421165D638"><p>We are conducting a large-scale socio-economic household survey across Cape Town to understand our residents and communities better. This will inform our planning decisions to better address residents’ needs.<br></p></div>

<h2>About</h2><p>The City of Cape Town plans to conduct a household survey every two years in order to obtain accurate, reliable, frequent and up-to-date data on households across the city. The first Cape Town Household Survey will take place from February to September 2024 and 10 000 households will be interviewed. By participating in this survey, residents will help us gather the information we need to deliver better services and know when to adapt service delivery and redesign or scale up our programmes.</p><h4>What information will be collected?<br></h4><div><br></div><div>We will gather socio-economic and demographic information, including:</div><div><ul> <br> <li>Age, gender and general health and well-being of each household member <br></li><li>Current employment, level of education, migration, and mobility</li><li>Home ownership or rental status, household income and expenditure, access to services and use of public amenities</li></ul><div><div>The survey will be POPIA compliant, and any personal information collected will be treated as confidential. All information gathered will be used only for statistical and research purposes. Participation is voluntary and any participant will have the right of access to and the right to rectify or request the removal of the information collected. </div><div> <br> <strong>Who will conduct this survey? </strong></div><div> </div></div></div><div>We have contracted a data collection agency, <a href="https://www.kantar.com/locations/south-africa#_=" target="_blank">Kantar</a>, to conduct the survey on our behalf. Kantar has partnered with <a href="https://askafrika.co.za/" target="_blank">Ask Afrika</a> to conduct fieldwork in some areas.<br></div><div> </div><div>Households are selected randomly to provide a spatially representative sample for each suburb.</div><div> </div><div>Interviewers will be clearly identified with an ID badge, as well as a pamphlet and QR code to where you can access more information about the survey.</div><div> </div><h2 class="sectHeading">FAQs<br></h2><p> <a href="https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Procedures%2c%20guidelines%20and%20regulations/City_Survey_FAQs.pdf" target="_blank">Read our FAQs for more information</a>.</p><h2 class="sectHeading">Contact us</h2><p>For more information, email <a href="mailto:CapeTown.Survey@capetown.gov.za">CapeTown.Survey@capetown.gov.za</a>.<br></p>

We are conducting a large-scale socio-economic household survey across Cape Town.