{"doc_desc":{"title":"Comparative National Elections Project 2004 [South Africa]","idno":"DDI_ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata producer"}],"prod_date":"2012-06-06","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M","title":"Comparative National Elections Project 2004","sub_title":"South Africa","alt_title":"CNEP SA 2004"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Richard Gunther","affiliation":"The Ohio State University "},{"name":"Paul Beck","affiliation":"The Ohio State University "}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"Copyright, Statistics South Africa"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Helpdesk","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"http:\/\/support.data1st.org\/"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Public Opinion Survey [ind\/pos]"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution","version_date":"2006"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"conflict, security and peace [4.1]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"},{"topic":"mass political behaviour, attitudes\/opinion [4.6]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) is a multi-year, multi-country examination of citizen voting behavior in democracies around the, world conducted by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, a unit of the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University. In addition to including the conventional factors in explaining vote decisions, it has pioneered a focus on how voters receive information about policies, parties, and candidates during election campaigns.\n\nCNEP began in 1990 with surveys in the first national elections of the 1990s in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan.  It expanded in 1993 to include eight more countries and additional questions.  CNEP recently expanded again so that it now includes 35 national election surveys in 21 countries.  It is now the third-largest international project of its kind. This dataset is a South African subset of the international dataset from the 2004 wave of the CNEP survey, CNEP III (South Africa was added as a survey country in this wave).","coll_dates":[{"start":"2004","end":"","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"geog_coverage":"The survey had national coverage.","geog_unit":"The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is city or town.","analysis_unit":"Units of analysis in the survey are individuals","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Among the survey topics are: \nThe role of mass media, discussion networks, secondary associations, and political parties as the four principal channels of political communications in democracies.\nThe impact of sociopolitical values on electoral behavior. \nVoting determinants, including long-term factors such as social cleavages, value conflicts and partisanship, and short-term factors such as state of the economy and candidate attributes.\nDeterminants of voting turnout, including the impacts of individual characteristics, country electoral laws, and political communications."},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"info@data1st.org","uri":"http:\/\/www.datafirst.uct.ac.za"}],"cit_req":"Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Comparative National Elections Project 2004 [dataset]. Version 1 of a South African subset of the original dataset. Columbus, Ohio: Mershon Center [producer], 2006. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.","conditions":"Datasets accessible in the DataFirst Research Data Centre or from the website of the Mershon Centre for International Security Studies","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."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"noDOI"}]}