DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04170.v1
title: Compilation of Afrobarometer Round I Survey in 12 Countries: Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, 1999-2001
title: Version 1

description: The Afrobarometer project assesses attitudes toward
 democracy, markets, and society in several sub-Saharan African
 countries. This dataset was compiled from the studies in Round 1 of
 the Afrobarometer, conducted from 1999-2001 in 12 African
 countries. Certain questions addressed country-specific issues, but
 many questions were asked in every survey. Respondents were queried on
 the politics, educational standards, and economics of their respective
 countries. Specific questions addressed their satisfaction with the
 current form of government, the extent of the government's power, the
 names of government officials, their trust in political and
 governmental officials and institutions, and comparisons between the
 current government and the former government. Other relevant questions
 focused on the meaning of democracy and its applications, the
 development of the country, political corruption, and the rating of
 and satisfaction with the respective country's economy. Respondents
 were polled on a range of social and quality of life issues. They were
 asked with which groups they identified, the source or sources of
 their current event information and news, and the frequency of
 occasions they had gone without necessities like food, money, and
 shelter. Demographic variables include age, country, district,
 education, languages spoken, occupation, party affiliation, political
 party, urban versus rural living environment, primary language, and
whether the respondent voted in prior elections.
description: Response Rates: Approximately 90 percent
description: Multistage, stratified, clustered national probability
sample
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Compilation of Afrobarometer Round I Survey in 12 Countries: Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, 1999-2001
description: Citizens of Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali,
 Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
of voting age (usually 18 years and older).
description: personal interviews(1) Additional information on Afrobarometer research
 projects is provided on the 
 Afrobarometer Web site. (2) In most cases, the dataset only
 includes those questions/variables that were asked in nine or more
 countries. (3) In the seven countries that originally formed the
 Southern Africa Barometer (SAB), Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia,
 South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, a standardized questionnaire was
 used. As a result, question wording and response categories are
 generally the same in the questionnaires for the previously mentioned
 countries. Also, the questionnaires in Mali and Tanzania were nearly
 identical to each other (in the original English version). Ghana,
 Uganda, and Nigeria each had distinct questionnaires. (4) The dataset
 combines, into a single variable, responses from across the different
 countries where either identical or very similar questions were used,
 or where conceptually equivalent questions can be found in at least
 nine of the different countries. For each variable, the exact question
 text from each of the countries or groups of countries is provided in
the PDF documentation.