Below you can download a series of questionnaires, conducted from 2005 to 2007 and then in 2021 and 2022, which have used the consensual approach to measure poverty in South Africa. In 2005, Questionnaire one of the "South African Social Attitudes Survey" (SASAS) included a module that looked at attitudes to necessities asking for a wide range of items whether these items were essential or not. This was followed, in 2006, by a further module in Questionnaire one of the "South African Social Attitudes Survey" which asked both about which items were seen as necessities and the possession, or otherwise, of these items. In 2007, a third module in Questionnaire one of the "South African Social Attitudes Survey" examined child poverty, again including questions both about which items were seen as necessities and the possession of these items. SASAS is conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council and the module was developed by the Centre for Analysis of South African Social Policy at the University of Oxford,

In 2021, the "Decent Standards of Living" survey (DSL) asked about attitudes to necessities and the 2022 "Decent Standards of Living" survey asked about the possession of these necessities. These surveys were funded by funded by UNICEF South Africa and were a collaboration between the Social Policy Initiative (SPI) in Johannesburg, the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI), and the Labour Research Service (LRS) in Cape Town. 

The 2005 questionnaires are available in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, Xitsonga, and TshiVenda; the 2006 in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, Xitsonga, Setswana, and isiXhosa; the 2007 in  English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, TshiVenda, and isiXhosa; the 2021 and 2022 questionnaires are available in English.