Quality of Life (QoL) Survey Viewer
Welcome to the GCRO Quality of Life (QoL) survey viewer
Map In 2009, GCRO commissioned its first ‘Quality of Life’ survey, in order to analyse the quality of life of citizens, identify key areas and groups needing intervention and support, and provide an holistic assessment of life in the Gauteng City-region – not just looking at Gross Domestic Product, or Value Add, or similar economic measures, but including the values and attitudes of citizens, their levels of social capital, alienation, anomie, and so on. The survey, because of both the sample size and breadth, and quality of analysis, had a considerable impact on government’s work, as well as enjoying significant media coverage. A second QoL survey was completed in 2011, with a third survey - critical in that three points in time will permit the GCRO to undertake trend analysis with a degree of confidence - completed in 2013.

The GCRO QoL viewer has been developed to provide easy online access to the survey data. Most of the variables are selectable, with an option to crosstab by local municipal boundaries or a few other demographic variables. The results are presented as tables and/or graphs and may be printed or downloaded. In all cases, GCRO must be appropriately referenced, e.g. GCRO 2013 Quality of Life survey.

The SPSS data is also available on request from the GCRO for research/non-financial gain purposes (info@gcro.ac.za).
The 2013 GCRO QoL survey of 27490 respondents covers the entire province of Gauteng with the 2011 local election wards utilised as the primary sampling units. The error bar is 0.6%. For more information, please access the 2013 Quality of Life project page or access the online interactive data by clicking the button (Access: 2013 QoL Survey Viewer) below.

Access: 2013 QoL Survey Viewer
The 2011 GCRO QoL survey of 16729 respondents covers the entire province of Gauteng with the 2011 local election wards utilised as the primary sampling units. The error bar is 0.7%. For more information, please access the 2011 Quality of Life project page or access the online interactive data by clicking the button (Access: 2011 QoL Survey Viewer) below.

Access: 2011 QoL Survey Viewer

The 2009 GCRO QoL survey sample of 6636 respondents covered the entire GCR, including the whole of Gauteng in detail, and selected GCR ‘footprints’ in four neighbouring provinces. For the first time, mappable, integrated data for the GCR - with an error bar of 1,3%. More information (including a presentation of the main results) is available on the 2009 Quality of Life project page or access the online interactive data by clicking the button (Access: 2009 QoL Survey Viewer) below.

Access: 2009 QoL Survey Viewer