The Cape Area Panel Study
The Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) is a panel study of young adults in Cape Town - and possibly the largest panel study underway in Africa. At the outset, in 2002, we interviewed just under 5000 young adults, aged between 14 and 22; we also collected data on the households in which they lived and asked our young adult respondents to complete a literacy and numeracy test. All 5000 respondents will be re-interviewed in either 2003 or 2004, in 2005, in either 2006 or 2007, and finally in 2008. By the end of 2008, we shall have interviewed each of our respondents five times over a period of seven years.
CAPS data are being used in research on topics ranging from progress through school, school choice, sexual behaviour, youth employment and unemployment, and AIDS stigma. Additional details on CAPS is available in our CAPS newsletter.
CAPS is a collaborative project between the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and the CSSR at UCT. Researchers from the two institutions collaborated in two successful funding applications to the US National Institutes of Health. CAPS is directed by Jeremy Seekings at the CSSR and David Lam at Michigan.
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