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Afrobarometer South Africa 2002

South Africa, 2002
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ZAF_2002_AFB-SA_v01_M
Producer(s)
Robert Mattes
Collection(s)
Afrobarometer
Metadata
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Jan 27, 2012
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Identification

Survey ID Number
ZAF_2002_AFB-SA_v01_M
Title
Afrobarometer South Africa 2002
Country/Economy
Name Country code
South Africa zaf
Study type
Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]
Abstract
The Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2002 was part of Round 2 of the Afrobarometer surveys, and collected data on the attitudes and opinions of the citizens of South Africa. Respondents were asked to rate South African President Mbeki and his administrations' overall performance and to state the most important issue facing the nation. Opinions were gathered on the role of the government in improving the economy, whether corruption existed in local and national government, whether government officials were responsive to problems of the general population, and whether local government officials, the police, the courts, the overall criminal justice system, the South African Defense Force, the media, the Independent Electoral Commission, and the South African Broadcasting Corporation could be trusted. Respondents were polled on their knowledge of government officials, their level of personal involvement in political, governmental, and community affairs, the inclusiveness of the government, and what their reactions would be to executive branch-sponsored government-imposed restrictions or prohibitions on the media, the judicial system, and parliament.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Units of analysis for the Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2002 include households and individuals

Version

Version Description
v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
Version Date
2002

Scope

Notes
The South African Afrobarometer 2002 covered the following topics:

Political opinions on the role of the government in improving the economy, whether corruption existed in local and national government, whether government officials were responsive to problems of the general
population, and whether local government officials, the police, the courts, the overall criminal justice system, the South African Defense Force, the media, the Independent Electoral Commission, and the South African Broadcasting Corporation could be trusted.

Economic questions on the country's and the respondent's economic condition, whether great income disparities are fair, and whether encouraging people to start small businesses would create more jobs.

Societal questions on trust in others, whether it is wise to plan ahead, whether everyone should be responsible for themselves and their own success or failure, what characteristics respondents used to identify themselves, whether it was easy to obtain assistance with securing food, water, schooling, and medical services, and by what methods respondents secured food, water, news, information, and medical services.

Background variables include age, home language, education, current employment status, employment history, family financial situation over the last 12 months, monetary support system, whether a close friend or relative had died from AIDS, language used in interview, sex, ethnicity, type of physical disability, if any, type of housing, location of interview and respondent's attitude during interview.
Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
conflict, security and peace [4.1] CESSDA Link
domestic political issues [4.2] CESSDA Link
government, political systems and organisations [4.4] CESSDA Link
mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6] CESSDA Link
political ideology [4.7] CESSDA Link
consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] CESSDA Link
economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA Link
employment [3.1] CESSDA Link
unemployment [3.5] CESSDA Link
crime [5.1] CESSDA Link
EDUCATION [6] CESSDA Link
housing [10.1] CESSDA Link
community, urban and rural life [13.1] CESSDA Link
cultural and national identity [13.3] CESSDA Link
social behaviour and attitudes [13.6] CESSDA Link
social conditions and indicators [13.8] CESSDA Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
This survey has national coverage.
Geographic Unit
The data for the Afrobarometer South Africa survey 2002 is at country level only.
Universe
The survey universe is citizens of South Africa 18 years of age or older

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Robert Mattes Institute for Democracy in South Africa

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2002-09 2002-10
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
There was one questionnaire for the Southern African Barometer Project Democracy Survey I (South Africa) conducted in 2000.

Economic questions addressed the past, present, and future of the country's and the respondent's economic condition, whether great income disparities are fair, and whether encouraging people to start small businesses would create more jobs.

Societal questions addressed how much trust could be placed in others, whether it is wise to plan ahead, whether everyone should be responsible for themselves and their own success or failure, what characteristics respondents used to identify themselves, whether it was easy to obtain assistance with securing food, water, schooling, and medical services, and by what methods respondents secured food, water, news, information, and medical services.

Background variables include age, home language, education, current employment status, employment history, family financial situation over the last 12 months, monetary support system, whether a close friend or relative had died from AIDS, language used in interview, sex, ethnicity, type of physical disability, if any, type of housing, location of interview and respondent's attitude during interview.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org Link
Access conditions
Because the Afrobarometer is funded from public resources, its data are a public good. All data are released via this website and other outlets, along with relevant codebooks. But, to allow initial in-house analysis and publication, data will not be released publicly until one year after the completion of fieldwork .

Afrobarometer data are protected by copyright. Authors of any published work based on Afrobarometer data or papers are required to acknowledge the source including, where applicable, citations to datasets posted on this website. In addition, the project requests users to send copies of any publications, papers, or reports that employ Afrobarometer data to Nicholas Kerr, Afrobarometer Publications Manager.
Citation requirements
Publications based on datasets distributed by DataFirst should acknowledge relevant sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this dataset is:

Mattes, Robert. Afrobarometer: Round 2 Survey of South Africa, 2002 [dataset]. South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa [producer], 2004. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2011.
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org Link

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The original collector of the data, the data distributor and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for uses of this collection or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
(c) 2002, Institute for Democracy in South Africa

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_ZAF_2002_AFB-SA_v01_M
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
Date of Metadata Production
2010-11-17
DDI Document version
Version 01
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