DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04702.v1
title: Afrobarometer: Round 2.5 Survey of South Africa, 2004
title: Version 1

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
 gave their opinions of the performance of South Africa's President
 Thabo Mbeki and elected officials in local and national government, the
 government's handling of issues such as crime and the economy, the
 most important issues facing the nation, and whether the country was
 heading in the right direction. A series of questions addressed
 respondents' living conditions, the economic conditions and political
 influence of their own ethnic group compared to other groups in the
 country, and whether they felt more attached to their national
 identity or their ethnic group. Views were sought on the past,
 present, and future of economic conditions in the country, economic
 policies and reform, political parties, income inequality, civil
 rights, equal rights for women, and whether laws were enforced
 equally. Respondents rated their level of trust in the government,
 military, courts, the media, and others, the level of corruption
 existing in these groups, the ease of obtaining assistance with
 securing documents and government services, the methods by which
 respondents did so, and how often in the past year respondents had
 paid a bribe to a government official. Other questions asked about
 respondents' interest in public affairs, their level of civic
 engagement, and their satisfaction with the way democracy and
 elections worked in South Africa. Respondents were quizzed on their
 knowledge of government officials, presidential term limits, and
 government policy, and gave their interpretation of the concept of
 democracy. Additional questions asked about media sources of
 information, respondents' ownership of consumer goods such as books
 and automobiles, their physical and mental health status, and whether
 any close friends or relatives had died of AIDS. Information was also
 collected on the presence of institutions, public utilities, and
 soliders in the area. Demographic variables include sex, age, race,
 ethnicity, education level, language, employment status, occupation,
 voter registration status and participation history, political party
 affiliation, religious preference, religious participation, and type
of residential area (e.g., urban, rural, etc.).
description: The data contain a weight variable (WITHINWT) that should be
 used in analyzing the data. The weight variable adjusts the
 distribution of the sample to account for oversamples or undersamples
 with respect to province and race. Please refer to the codebook for
more information on weighting.
description: A new sample is drawn for each round of Afrobarometer
 surveys, regardless of whether or not a previous survey was conducted
 in the country. Wherever possible, and always in the first stage of
 sampling, random sampling was conducted with probability proportionate
 to population size (PPPS). The purpose was to guarantee that larger
 (i.e., more populated) geographical units have a proportionally
 greater probability of being chosen into the sample. The sample was
 drawn by taking the smallest geographic units, Census Enumeration
 Areas (EAs), and stratifying all EAs across the country into separate
 lists according to province, race, and urban/rural status. Six hundred
 EAs were then randomly selected from these lists with the probability
 proportionate to its size in the overall population as represented in
 the 2001 Census. Four interviews were then randomly conducted within
 each EA, and a respondent aged 18 years of age or older was randomly
 selected from each household. A gender quota ensured that every other
interview was with a female.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Afrobarometer: Round 2.5 Survey of South Africa, 2004
description: Citizens of South Africa aged 18 or older.
description: face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaire(1) The data available for download are not weighted,
 and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. (2) The
 CASEID variable was created for use with online analysis. (3) The
 DISTRICT variable was converted from character to numeric and recoded
 to protect respondent confidentiality. (4) The meaning of the
 unlabeled numeric codes in the verbatim responses in variables Q35A,
 Q35B, Q35C, Q43A1, Q43B1, Q43C1, Q44AVERB, Q44BVERB, and Q44CVERB are
 unknown. (5) More information about Afrobarometer research projects
 can be found via the
Afrobarometer Web site.