The Minister of Transport, Honourable Dipuo Peters will officially receive and release the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) 2013 in Tshwane on Thursday, 17 July 2014.
The National Household Travel Survey 2013 gives an insight into transport use, travel patterns and other transport related matters of South African households. The survey is conducted every 10 years and it assists the Department of Transport and other departments, research and other organisations such as institutions of higher learning, business and international bodies with research, planning and the implementation of projects and programmes to the broader benefit of society.
Also critical, the survey enables the formulation, development and implementation of government policy.
The last NHTS was undertaken in 2003 and, 10 years down the line, the South African transport and travelling landscape has changed and this will be reported on in detail during the official release by the Minister.
Minister Peters and Transport Deputy Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga will receive the results of the NHTS from South Africa’s Statistician-General, Mr. Pali Lehohla, in the presence of senior government officials, stakeholders from across the transport and other sectors, research institutions, institutions of higher learning, non-governmental organisations, business, labour and the media.
The survey was conducted by Statistics South Africa on behalf of the Department of Transport.
The details of the official release of the National Household Travel Survey 2013 are as follows:
Date: Thursday, 17 July 2014
Venue: Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) Offices, Tshedimosetso House, Francis Baard Street, corner Festival, Hatfield, Pretoria
Time: 9h30 for 10h00
All media are invited to attend. Journalists attending the event are requested to confirm attendance with:
Motlatsi Lebea
Cell: 073 323 9333
E-mail: Monarens@dot.gov.za
Additional information for editors:
Even though Administrative systems provide a wide variety of travel data, but most transport strategies and policies have to be based on an understanding of the travel patterns of households and individuals. The National Department of Transport (DOT) conducted the first National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) in 2003 in collaboration with Statistics South Africa.
The need for a second travel survey has increasingly been articulated and has formed the basis for discussions between Statistics South Africa and DOT about the survey.
The main aim of the National Household Travel Survey 2013 is to gain an insight into the travel patterns and transport problems of the people of South Africa by collecting information for the following purposes:
- To serve as the basis for DoT research, planning and policy formulation;
- To assist transport authorities to effectively target subsidies, and
- To serve as a data source for the definition and measurement of Key Performance Indicators for land passenger transport.
The second transport survey was executed during the period February to March 2013 by a team of contract workers and the statistical release will take place in Hatfield, Pretoria.
Since March 2014, Statistics South Africa has been doing several revisions on the NHTS data. The most important of these include:
- Doing additional structural edits which made it necessary to re-weight the data;
- Developing imputation programs for missing earnings data to increase completeness of household income data, and
- Revising destination TAZ codes for education, work and business trips and modal edit rules.
On July 17 the revised report and the data sets will be officially handed over to the Minister Peters by the Statistician General Mr Pali Lehohla.
