HSRC National Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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Reference ID

ZAF_1998_HSRCNS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Human Sciences Research Council

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_1998_HSRCNS_v01_M

Title

HSRC National Survey 1998

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]

Abstract

This study was undertaken to investigate public attitudes on national priorities, social issues, political parties and the South African government’s service delivery programme. It also aimed to reflect the extent of and attitudes towards the transition from the previous apartheid system to a constitutional democracy. The survey was a project of the HSRC’s Public Opinion Analysis Programme, which aimed to provide regular and reliable data and analysis of national social priority issues.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Units of analysis in the survey were individuals 18 years and older.

Version

Version Description

v1.1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution

Version Date

1998

Version Notes

Version 1 of the HSRC National Survey 1998 acquired from South Africa Data Archive (SADA) did not have value labels and variable labels.
In this version, version 1.1, value labels have been added by DataFirst on 09 February 2012.

Scope

Notes

The survey collected data on individuals, including gender, age, highest educational qualification, employment status, marital status, and population group, as well as household income data. Public opinion data collected included citizens' political affiliations, and their perceptions of democratic development, national priorities, the economy, government performance and service delivery, and gender and sociopolitical issues.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is magisterial district

Universe

The survey covered all people in the country, 18 years and older.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Human Sciences Research Council

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The population was stratified according to nine socio-economic area types. The allocation was roughly proportional to the adjusted 1991 population census figures. Multistage cluster (probability) sampling was used to draw the respondents, using the adjusted 1991 population census figures as a sampling frame. Census enumerator areas and similar areas were used as the clusters in the penultimate sampling stage, from which an equal number of households were drawn. All the clusters were drawn from the final clusters with equal probability (systematically). The respondents were drawn at random from qualifying household members.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start
1998-11

Data Collection Notes

Fieldwork for the survey was undertaken by Markdata

Data Access

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za	info@data1st.org

Access conditions

Licensed dataset, accessible under conditions

Citation requirements

Human Sciences Research Council. HSRC National Survey 1998 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council [producer], 1998. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
DataFirst Helpdesk	University of Cape Town	support@data1st.org	http://support.data1st.org/

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_1998_HSRCNS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	Metadata Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2012-10-24

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1.1

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