Attitudes of White South Africans Towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1996

South Africa, 1996

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Reference ID

ZAF_1996_ATRC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Gunnar Theissen, Brandon Hamber

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_1996_ATRC_v01_M

Title

Attitudes of White South Africans Towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1996

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]

Abstract

The principal purpose of this explorative telephone survey was to collect information on attitudes of white South Africans towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and related topics at the beginning of its public hearings in April-May 1996.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Units of analysis in the survey were households and individuals

Version

Version Description

v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution

Version Date

1998

Scope

Notes

Demographic data collected included data on age; gender; highest educational level; current occupation; readership of newspapers; gross income; living area.
Public opinion data was collected on: Attitudes towards the new democracy in South Africa; ethnic and national identity, political affiliation, attitudes towards affirmative action, land reform and opening of former white schools to black South Africans, attitudes towards human rights and civil liberties; death penalty; attitudes towards black South Africans (subtle racism scale); attitudes towards the apartheid past; knowledge of the TRC; sources of information on the TRC; attitudes towards amnesty for politically motivated human rights violations, attitudes towards investigation of past human rights violations, attitudes towards the TRC, reparations, compensation, and opinions about the political responsibility for repression of black communities.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6]	CESSDA

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage

Geographic Unit

The "Telephone directory no." variable provides data on the city, region or province covered by the survey, for example, "Pretoria", "Vaal Triangle", "North-West"

Universe

"White' South Africans, 18 years or older.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Gunnar Theissen	Free University of Berlin
Brandon Hamber	Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

A random sample of adult (18+) white South African households with a telephone (1996: 89%) was derived from a complete set of the latest edition of official Telkom phone books. The "next-birthday-method" was used for intra-household respondent selection (the respondent in the household is selected randomly by interviewing that member of the household, whose birthday is next). Black, Indian and Coloured respondents were excluded through an introductory question.

Response Rate

A maximum of six contact attempts were made at different times to speak to the selected respondent. The response rate was 56 Percent. See Theissen (1997, Chapter 4) for further details.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start
1996-05

Access policy

Access conditions

Licensed dataset, accessible under conditions

Citation requirements

Theissen, Gunnar and Brandon Hamber. Attitudes of White South Africans towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Apartheid past, 1996 [dataset]. Version 1. Braamfontein: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation [producer], 1998. 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_1996_ATRC_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	Metadata producer

Date of Metadata Production

2012-02-06

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1

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