South Africa Census 2011
Title
South Africa Census 2011
Description
Census data including transportation, demographic, economic, migration information. Also includes metadata such as a PDF guide to the spatial metadata, a data dictionary, and census questionnaires in a variety of languages. Projection for this data Albers Equal Area.
Creator
,Statistics South Africa, South Africa, originator
Identifier
/NAP/UT/SouthAfricaCensus2011.xml
830272837
Collection
Geospatial
Terms of Use
Restricted to U of T faculty, staff, and students.
License
license, restricted
Production Date
2019
Distributor
East View Geospatial, Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States, publisher
Data Type
vector
Geographic Keywords
Southern Africa, South Africa
Continent
Africa
Notes
Field names were renamed to create unique names across the geodatabase (e.g. Original variable of "F00___04" was updated to D001 and given the alias "Quinquennial Age Group: 0-4", the letter D was given as it relates to the Demographic theme table. D = Demographic, E = Economic, H = Housing, M = Migration, S = Social and T = Transportation). All variables from the original data were reviewed for completeness and organized into their relevant themes of Demographic, Economic, Housing, Migration, Social and Transportation. The GDB was built to hold these specific tables with all geographic names and codes represented as text fields and census data represented as doubles. Automated tools were run to apply aliases. Vector data was analyzed for accuracy and compared with national boundaries.
Broad Topic
Business and economic
Keywords
South Africa
Census
Recensement
Housing
Logement
Demographic data
Données démographiques
Income
Revenu
Transport
Ethnic groups
Groupe ethnique
Literacy
Alphabétisation
Coordinate System
4978, https://epsg.org/
Scale
50000
Producer
East View Geospatial, Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
Citation
,Statistics South Africa, South Africa, originator, “South Africa Census 2011,” MDL Data, accessed January 20, 2026, https://mdl-data.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/816.
