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Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011
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Reference ID
ZAF_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M
Producer(s)
The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)
Collection(s)
Afrobarometer
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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_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M
    Title

    Afrobarometer Survey 2011
    Subtitle

    Round 5
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    South Africa ZAF
    Study type

    Public Opinion Survey
    Series Information

    Afrobarometer collects and disseminates information regarding Africans’ views on democracy, governance, economic reform, civil society, and quality of life. Round 1 surveys were conducted between 1999 and 2001. At that time, the project covered seven countries in Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe), three countries in West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria and Mali) and two in East Africa (Uganda and Tanzania). Round 2 surveys were completed by November 2003 with four new countries added: Kenya, Senegal, Cape Verde and Mozambique. Round 3 surveys were conducted from March 2005 to February 2006 in the same countries, plus Benin and Madagascar. Round 4 surveys were conducted during 2008 and 2009 in 20 countries, reflecting the addition of Burkina Faso and Liberia. The fifth Round of surveys were done between October 2011 and June 2013. In the Round 5 surveys, the project covered an additional 15 countries in different regions of the continent. Among the new R5 countries were: Mauritius and Swaziland in Southern Africa; Burundi and Ethiopia in East Africa; Cameroon, Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Togo in West Africa. Afrobarometer also worked with the Arab Barometer and implemented R5 surveys in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco Sudan and Tunisia. Additional Round 5.5 surveys were also conducted in Mali and Zimbabwe.
    Abstract
    The Afrobarometer is a comparative series of public attitude surveys that assess African citizen's attitudes to democracy and governance, markets, and civil society, among other topics. The surveys have been undertaken at periodic intervals since 1999. The Afrobarometer's coverage has increased over time. Round 1 (1999-2001) initially covered 7 countries and was later extended to 12 countries. Round 2 (2002-2004) surveyed citizens in 16 countries. Round 3 (2005-2006) 18 countries, and Round 4 (2008) 20 countries. The survey covered 34 countries in Round 5 (2011-2013).
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Households

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01: Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution

    Scope

    Notes

    Each Afrobarometer survey collects data about individual attitudes and behavior, including innovative indicators especially relevant to developing societies. This includes the following topics:

    • Democracy - Popular understanding of, support for, and satisfaction with democracy, as well as any desire to return to, or experiment with, authoritarian alternatives.
    • Governance - The demand for, and satisfaction with, effective, accountable and clean government; judgments of overall governance performance and social service delivery.
    • Livelihoods - How do African families survive? What variety of formal and informal means do they use to gain access to food, shelter, water, health, employment and money?
    • Macro-economics and markets - Citizen understandings of market principles and market reforms and their assessments of economic conditions and government performance at economic management.
    • Social capital - Whom do people trust? To what extent do they rely on informal networks and associations? What are their evaluations of the trustworthiness of various institutions?
    • Conflict and crime - How safe do people feel? What has been their experience with crime and violence?
    • Participation - The extent to which ordinary people join in development efforts, comply with the laws of the land, vote in elections, contact elected representatives, and engage in protest. The quality of electoral representation.
    • National identity - How do people see themselves in relation to ethnic and class identities? Does a shared sense of national identity exist?
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    conflict, security and peace [4.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    domestic political issues [4.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    government, political systems and organisations [4.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    political ideology [4.7] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    business/industrial management and organisation [2.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    mass media [7.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social exclusion [12.9] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    cultural activities and participation [13.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    cultural and national identity [13.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    religion and values [13.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social behaviour and attitudes [13.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social change [13.7] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social conditions and indicators [13.8] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage
    Geographic Unit

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

    The sample universe for Afrobarometer surveys includes all citizens of voting age within the country. In other words, we exclude anyone who is not a citizen and anyone who has not attained this age (usually 18 years) on the day of the survey. Also excluded are areas determined to be either inaccessible or not relevant to the study, such as those experiencing armed conflict or natural disasters, as well as national parks and game reserves. As a matter of practice, we have also excluded people living in institutionalized settings, such as students in dormitories and persons in prisons or nursing homes.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
    Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
    Michigan State University (MSU)
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    Department for International Development
    Swedish Internation Development Cooperation Agency
    United States Agency for International Development
    World Bank Group

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Sample size: 2399
    Sampling frame: Population was projected for 2011 based on 2001 Census figures. Dr. Ariane
    Neethling, Prof. Dawid Stoker and a team of sampling and demography experts
    made the projections.
    Sample universe: Citizens age 18 years or older, excluding institutions
    Sample design: Nationally representative, random, clustered, stratified, multistage area probability sample
    Stratification: Province, Race and Urban- Rural
    Stages: PSUs, start points, households, and respondents
    PSU selection: Optimal allocation
    Cluster size: 4 households per PSU
    Household selection: Randomly selected start points, followed by walk pattern and selecting the 10th household.
    Respondent selection: Gender quota filled by alternating interviews between men and women; respondents of appropriate gender listed, after which household member draws a numbered card to select the individual.
    Response Rate

    Response rate of the survey was 59.4%.
    Weighting

    Note that for some surveys data is weighted to correct for either deliberate (e.g., to provide an adequate sample of specific sub-groups for analytical purposes) or inadvertent over- or under-sampling of particular sample strata. In these cases, a weighting variable is included as the last variable in the data set, with details described in the codebook. These weighting factors should be used when calculating all national-level statistics.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2011-10-20 2011-11-30 Round 5
    Data Collectors
    Name
    Citizens Surveys

    Data Access

    Access conditions

    Public use files, available to all
    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:
    Afrobarometer Data, [Country(ies)], [Round(s)], [Year(s)], available at http://www.afrobarometer.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

    Contacts
    Name Email
    For general inquiries bhoward@afrobarometer.org
    For general inquiries snkomo@afrobarometer.org
    For data datarequests@afrobarometer.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ZAF_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group World Bank Group Documentation of the survey
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-02-26

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (February 2020)
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