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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
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • 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 http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    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 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

    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.

    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

    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_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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