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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
Metadata
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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 Link

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
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link
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 Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org Link

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.

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
DDI Document version
Version 1
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