Brief Description: The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) is a 10- year, 3-wave panel survey. In 1998, a consortium of South African and international researchers re-surveyed 1100 of the households that were first surveyed in 1993 in KwaZulu-Natal province as a part of the national Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development. Triangulating different methodologies, a sub-sample of households were re-visited in 2001 and 2004 using qualitative methodologies.
This panel study offers unique insight through the collection of data over period that spans South Africa’s political and demographic transition, the introduction of many policies intended to reduce poverty, as well as the era of rapid HIV/AIDS infection. The data collected will be used to provide an analysis the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as well as of the impact of poverty reduction interventions undertaken since 1993. By placing the data into the public domain, the project simultaneously will provide a national resource for the analysis of poverty and inequality, and for training specialists in such analysis.
The latest available data can be found on the Data Sets page of this website.
Collaborators: The third wave of KIDS is being undertaken in collaboration with the South African Department of Social Development (DSD) with a consortium comprising the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Wisconsin-Madison, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Studies (NIBR). Within UKZN, the Department of Public Health, School of Medicine and the Food Security Programme, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, have been partners in this project.
Funders: Funds have been raised from the British Department for International Development (DFID), USAID, NRC and the NRF for the actual field work and some of the analysis.
Progress to date: Data from KIDS 2004 has been released and is available on this site. This wave comprises a quantitative component and a complementary qualitative component.
The 3rd wave of the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Survey (KIDS) interviewed 867 households first surveyed in 1993 and new households established by adult children of the original respondents. In addition to the socio-economic data previously gathered, the survey collected information concerning the impact of social security grants, particularly the Child Support Grant (CSG), the impact of HIV/AIDS on poverty and long term poverty dynamics.
Publications:
Hunter N (2003) The Child Support Grant: background document prepared for the Third Wave of the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Survey (KIDS). 33pp. 
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May, J., Carter, M., Haddad, L. and Maluccio, J. (1999) KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) 1993-1998: A Longitudinal Household Data Set for South African Policy Analysis. Working Paper No. 21. More
Participants:
Professor Julian May
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