Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS)
CAPS is a longitudinal study of the lives of youths in metropolitan Cape Town, South Africa. The first wave of the study conducted interviews with around 4,800 randomly selected young people aged 14 - 22 from August to December, 2002. Wave 1 also collected information on all members of these young people's households, as well as a random sample of households that did not have members age 14-22. A third of the youth sample was re-interviewed in 2003 (Wave 2a) and the remaining two thirds were re-visited in 2004 (Wave 2b). The full youth sample was then re-interviewed in 2005 (Wave 3), 2006 (Wave 4) and 2009 (Wave 5). The first wave of CAPS had successful interviews from 5,256 households and 4,752 young adults.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
4,752 (participants)
Age at first data collection
14 - 22 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2002
Primary Institutions
Princeton University
University of Cape Town (iYunivesithi yaseKapa, Universiteit van Kaapstad, UCT)
University of Michigan
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
European Union (EU)
Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD)
John E. Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
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