DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04236.v2
title: Afrobarometer: Round II Survey of South Africa, 2002
title: Version 2

description: The Afrobarometer project was designed to assess attitudes
 toward democracy, markets, and civil society in several sub-Saharan
 African nations, and to track the evolution of such attitudes in those
 nations over time. This particular survey was concerned with the
 attitudes and opinions of the citizens of South Africa. Respondents
 were asked to rate South Africa's President Mbeki and his
 administration's overall performance, and to state the most important
 issues 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 media, the Independent National Electoral
 Commission, and the government broadcasting service could be
 trusted. Respondents were polled on their knowledge of government
 officials, their level of personal involvement in political,
 governmental, and community affairs, and the inclusiveness of the
 government. Respondents were asked to grade the way the country was
 governed under Apartheid, the current system of government, and the
 political system of the country as they expected it to be in 10 years.
 Economic questions addressed the past, present, and future of the
 country's and the respondent's economic condition, and whether great
 income disparities are fair. Societal questions addressed 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 did
 so. Background variables include age, language spoken most at home,
 education, current employment status, employment status over the last
 12 months, 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, religious affiliation, religious participation, type of
 physical disability (if any), type of housing, and respondent's
attitude during the interview.
description: Weighting variable, WITHINWT, adjusts the distribution of
 the sample to account for oversamples or undersamples with respect to
province and race. See codebook for details.
description: Response Rates: Approximately 90 percent.
description: National probability sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Afrobarometer: Round II Survey of South Africa, 2002
description: Citizens of South Africa aged 18 years and older.
description: (1) This survey was administered in all provinces
 of South Africa in proportion to the relative size of each
 province and racial group in the national population. (2) To preserve
 respondent confidentiality, the variable DISTRICT has been recoded to
 "BLANKED". (3) The dates in the data file for variable DATEINTR are
 not consistent with the dates listed in the codebook for this
 variable. (4) In producing the full product-suite of files, variables
 DATEINTR, STRTIME, and ENDTIME have been changed from date to string
 variables. As a result, they have moved from their original positions
 in the data file to the end of the variable list. (5) Additional
 information about the Afrobarometer Survey can be found at the
Afrobarometer Web site.