Lauris Olson
Librarian & Coordinator, Social Sciences Collections
As the Penn Libraries' social sciences bibliographer - now coordinator for social sciences collections - since 1998, Lauris is responsible for selecting books, journals, electronic resources, and other media supporting Penn research and instruction in sociology, economics, linguistics, criminology, communication, and related fields. Lauris is Penn's Official Representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and the contact person for the Penn Libraries' Pennsylvania State Data Center affiliate membership. Lauris coordinates collection development and management activities of subject librarians for anthropology & archaeology, business, education, gender, women's studies & sexuality, political science & international relations, psychology, and social policy & practice/social work. Lauris is also the Penn Libraries' African studies bibliographer. Lauris started at the Penn Libraries in 1991 as a Van Pelt Library reference librarian, but Lauris's presence at Penn began in 1975 as an undergraduate, earning BA and MA degrees in Anthropology here, alongside a Drexel library degree.
The Penn Libraries have acquired the South Africa 2011 Census Data Collection. This GIS data product offers detailed aggregate tables on South Africa's population from its 2011 Census with geographic querying and visualization capabilities.
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The South Africa 2011 Census Data Collection reports on 907 census data variables from 77 published tables, covering demographic, economic, housing, social, migration, and transportation topics for individual persons and households. These data variables are aggregated for 84,907 Small Areas covering the whole country. Geographic coding permits aggregating the data variables for higher-level geographies, including Municipalities, Districts, and Provinces.
Data in the South Africa 2011 Census Data Collection are presented in six ArcGIS shapefiles that can be displayed and analyzed using geographic information systems applications such as ArcGIS and QGIS. The census data variables are provided as attributes for the shapefiles. An ArcGIS geodatabase version of the data product is also provided.
This GIS data product has been developed by East View Geospatial using data from the South Africa 2011 Census published by Statistics South Africa, as one of East View's GIS Census Collection product series.
