This complements the detailed discussion of the comparability of the income from the three data sets that is presented in section 2.1 of the report. The 1993 and 2000 data sets have been publicly available and widely used for a number of years. Therefore, our commentary on these data sets will be veiy brief. Therefore, our description of this data set is more extensive. There is good baseline information to provide the data for monitoring changes in South Africa since the democratic transition.