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Afrobarometer South Africa 2006

South Africa, 2006
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ZAF_2006_AFB-SA_v01_M
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Robert Mattes
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    Survey ID number

    ZAF_2006_AFB-SA_v01_M

    Title

    Afrobarometer South Africa 2006

    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]

    Abstract

    The Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2006 is from Wave 3 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 2006 are households and individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution

    Version Date

    2006

    Scope

    Notes

    The South African Afrobarometer 2006 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 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
    consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    employment [3.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    crime [5.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    EDUCATION [6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    housing [10.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    community, urban and rural life [13.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    cultural and national identity [13.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social behaviour and attitudes [13.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social conditions and indicators [13.8] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The scope of the Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2006 was national coverage

    Geographic Unit

    The Afrobarometer South Africa 2006 data is at country level only.

    Universe

    The survey universe of the Afrobarometer South Africa 2006 study 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

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    There was one questionnaire for the Afrobarometer South Africa Survey 2006, which was a standard questionnaire for all the South African Afrobarometer surveys and 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.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start
    2006
    Time periods
    Start date
    2006

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za info@data1st.org
    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.

    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 3 Survey of South Africa, 2006 [dataset]. South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa [producer], 2007. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2011.

    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) 2006, Institute for Democracy in South Africa

    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_2006_AFB-SA_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2011-06-07

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01

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