Afrobarometer South Africa 2004
South Africa, 2004
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ZAF_2004_AFB-SA_v01_M
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Robert Mattes
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Identification
Survey ID Number
ZAF_2004_AFB-SA_v01_M
Title
Afrobarometer South Africa 2004
Country/Economy
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | zaf |
Study type
Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]
Abstract
The Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2004 is from Round 2.5 of the Afrobarometer Surveys. The study 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 2004 include households and individuals
Version
Version Description
v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
Version Date
2004
Scope
Notes
The South African Afrobarometer 2004 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.
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
The scope of the Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2004 was national coverage
Geographic Unit
The Afrobarometer South Africa 2004 survey data 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 |
|---|
| 2004 |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
There was one questionnaire for the Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2004, which covered the following topics:
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.
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 | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | Link |
Access conditions
Because the Afrobarometer is funded from public resources, its datasets are a public good. All datasets 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 data sets 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.
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 data sets 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 2.5 Survey of South Africa, 2004 [dataset]. South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa [producer], 2004. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2011.
Mattes, Robert. Afrobarometer: Round 2.5 Survey of South Africa, 2004 [dataset]. South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa [producer], 2004. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2011.
Access authority
| Name | Affiliation | 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) 2004, Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Metadata production
DDI Document ID
DDI_ZAF_2004_AFB-SA_v01_M
Producers
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
Date of Metadata Production
2011-06-07
DDI Document version
Version 01