Introduction

The project seeks: 

1. to develop a set of population surfaces and measures of deprivation and spatial inequalities for the South African Censuses of 1996, 2001 and 2011 using Census data and remotely-sensed imagery;

2. to make these population surfaces freely-available via an interactive and publicly accessible web site (a digital atlas);

3. to undertake focus groups to explore factors and processes that shape people's experiences of inequality, and whether such experiences affect people's attachment to place and sense of social inclusion;

4. to analyse social attitudes about inequality in existing rounds of the nationally representative South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) and design and analysis of a new module of inequality-related questions for 2017;

5. to test whether people's attitudes to inequality are associated with their experiences of inequality using new/refined dependent and independent variables. 

These pages detail the project and its outcomes. The site is being updated regularly, so please check back soon. 

InequalitiesSA is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under the ESRC-NRF Newton Call for Collaborative Research Urban Transformations in South Africa call (project ES/N014022/1) and this support is acknowledged gratefully. 

The project is a collaborative undertaking between the University of Liverpool, Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). 

The project is based with the University of Liverpool’s cross-disciplinary Centre for Spatial Demographics Research. 

For more information please contact Chris Lloyd.