Income and Expenditure Survey 2022/23

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Just received notice that my household has been selected for this survey.

What is the Income and Expenditure Survey?

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will be conducting the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) from November 2022 to November 2023.
The IES is a household-based sample survey that collects information on all acquisitions, consumption, spending, and income earned of households living in South Africa.
The survey further aims to provide appropriate and reliable information on life circumstances and service delivery at national, provincial and metropolitan levels.
The information collected will provide a picture of the income and expenditure profiles of the household economy and also assist Stats SA to select a relevant basket of goods and services for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that is anchored on the consumption and spending patterns of South African households.
The survey will collect information from your household through face-to-face interviews using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) data collection approach.
Thank you for your participation.

What gets me is the following:

Section 16: Duty to answer questions
• Fieldworkers may ask you and any other household members questions related to your household and your living conditions.
You have a legal obligation to answer these questions truthfully.

Section 18: Offences and Penalties
• If you refuse an employee entry to your premises (Section 15), or refuse to answer questions (Section 16), you can be fined up to R10 000 or jailed for six months (or both).

I can't believe this is legal :-(
 
Throw away the notice, say you never got it, and when the field workers arrive, call them WMC spies and CIA agents.
 
OCP said:
Just received notice that my household has been selected for this survey.

What is the Income and Expenditure Survey?

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will be conducting the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) from November 2022 to November 2023.
The IES is a household-based sample survey that collects information on all acquisitions, consumption, spending, and income earned of households living in South Africa.
The survey further aims to provide appropriate and reliable information on life circumstances and service delivery at national, provincial and metropolitan levels.
The information collected will provide a picture of the income and expenditure profiles of the household economy and also assist Stats SA to select a relevant basket of goods and services for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that is anchored on the consumption and spending patterns of South African households.
The survey will collect information from your household through face-to-face interviews using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) data collection approach.
Thank you for your participation.

What gets me is the following:

Section 16: Duty to answer questions
• Fieldworkers may ask you and any other household members questions related to your household and your living conditions.
You have a legal obligation to answer these questions truthfully.

Section 18: Offences and Penalties
• If you refuse an employee entry to your premises (Section 15), or refuse to answer questions (Section 16), you can be fined up to R10 000 or jailed for six months (or both).

I can't believe this is legal :-(
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If the notice was in your post box, throw it away....

And if some random appears at your gate to ask, they stay one side.. you stay the other and answer the questions as you see fit... not how they want them answered.
 
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Our company gets selected every year to submit to StatsSA and I simply do not have time to complete the survey...oops
 
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Pitbull said:
100% ^^

Unless it was sent registered mail, they can get fk'd! Just claim you know nothing of it.
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OCP said:
Just received notice that my household has been selected for this survey.

What is the Income and Expenditure Survey?

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will be conducting the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) from November 2022 to November 2023.
The IES is a household-based sample survey that collects information on all acquisitions, consumption, spending, and income earned of households living in South Africa.
The survey further aims to provide appropriate and reliable information on life circumstances and service delivery at national, provincial and metropolitan levels.
The information collected will provide a picture of the income and expenditure profiles of the household economy and also assist Stats SA to select a relevant basket of goods and services for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that is anchored on the consumption and spending patterns of South African households.
The survey will collect information from your household through face-to-face interviews using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) data collection approach.
Thank you for your participation.

What gets me is the following:

Section 16: Duty to answer questions
• Fieldworkers may ask you and any other household members questions related to your household and your living conditions.
You have a legal obligation to answer these questions truthfully.

Section 18: Offences and Penalties
• If you refuse an employee entry to your premises (Section 15), or refuse to answer questions (Section 16), you can be fined up to R10 000 or jailed for six months (or both).

I can't believe this is legal :-(
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StatsSA probably underestimates household income/wealth etc. in this country by a massive % simply because everyone above the poverty line ignores the bell unless it's Takealot.

They call us a low-trust society but the rich are actually zero-trust.
 
Tomtomtom said:
StatsSA probably underestimates household income/wealth etc. in this country by a massive % simply because everyone above the poverty line ignores the bell unless it's Takealot.

They call us a low-trust society but the rich are actually zero-trust.
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There's simply too much risk in sharing this information for little benefit. Even if it's official, these workers might happily pass on information about what you earn and what you have to house-robbing syndicates.
 
3WA said:
There's simply too much risk in sharing this information for little benefit. Even if it's official, these workers might happily pass on information about what you earn and what you have to house-robbing syndicates.
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Exactly - SARS already knows my income (they keep a fair chunk of it!); the rest is no-one else's business.
 
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