University of Cape Town

DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)

DataFirst is a UCT research unit and data service providing online access to survey and administrative microdata from South Africa and other African countries. Its open data portal is built on the NADA (National Data Archive) cataloging tool, which exposes a public REST/JSON API for browsing the catalog of studies. The catalog endpoint returns survey metadata (hundreds of confirmed surveys) in JSON.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog

Other Resources

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Website
https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-cape-town:datafirst-nada
name: DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)
description: DataFirst is a UCT research unit and data service providing online access to survey and administrative
  microdata from South Africa and other African countries. Its open data portal is built on the NADA (National
  Data Archive) cataloging tool, which exposes a public REST/JSON API for browsing the catalog of studies.
  The catalog endpoint returns survey metadata (hundreds of confirmed surveys) in JSON.
humanURL: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog
baseURL: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/api
tags:
- Microdata
- Open Data
- Research Data
- NADA
- Catalog
- Surveys
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/