Comparative National Elections Project 2004, South Africa

South Africa, 2004

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Reference ID

ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M

Producer(s)

Richard Gunther, Paul Beck

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M

Title

Comparative National Elections Project 2004

Subtitle

South Africa

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]

Abstract

The Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) is a multi-year, multi-country examination of citizen voting behavior in democracies around the, world conducted by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, a unit of the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University. In addition to including the conventional factors in explaining vote decisions, it has pioneered a focus on how voters receive information about policies, parties, and candidates during election campaigns.

CNEP began in 1990 with surveys in the first national elections of the 1990s in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan. It expanded in 1993 to include eight more countries and additional questions. CNEP recently expanded again so that it now includes 35 national election surveys in 21 countries. It is now the third-largest international project of its kind. This dataset is a South African subset of the international dataset from the 2004 wave of the CNEP survey, CNEP III (South Africa was added as a survey country in this wave).

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Units of analysis in the survey are individuals

Version

Version Description

v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution

Version Date

2006

Scope

Notes

Among the survey topics are:
The role of mass media, discussion networks, secondary associations, and political parties as the four principal channels of political communications in democracies.
The impact of sociopolitical values on electoral behavior.
Voting determinants, including long-term factors such as social cleavages, value conflicts and partisanship, and short-term factors such as state of the economy and candidate attributes.
Determinants of voting turnout, including the impacts of individual characteristics, country electoral laws, and political communications.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
conflict, security and peace [4.1]	CESSDA
mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6]	CESSDA

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage.

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is city or town.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Richard Gunther	The Ohio State University
Paul Beck	The Ohio State University

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start
2004

Access policy

Access conditions

Datasets accessible in the DataFirst Research Data Centre or from the website of the Mershon Centre for International Security Studies

Citation requirements

Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Comparative National Elections Project 2004 [dataset]. Version 1 of a South African subset of the original dataset. Columbus, Ohio: Mershon Center [producer], 2006. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DataFirst	University of Cape Town		info@data1st.org

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

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	Metadata producer

Date of Metadata Production

2012-06-06

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1.1

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