Comparative National Elections Project 2004
South Africa, 2004
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Comparative National Elections Project 2004
South Africa
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | zaf |
Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]
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.
CNEP 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).
Sample survey data [ssd]
Units of analysis in the survey are individuals
Version
v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution
2006
Scope
Among the survey topics are:
The role of mass media, discussion networks, secondary associations, and political parties as the four principal channels of political communications in democracies.
The impact of sociopolitical values on electoral behavior.
Voting 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.
Determinants of voting turnout, including the impacts of individual characteristics, country electoral laws, and political communications.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| conflict, security and peace [4.1] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
The survey had national coverage.
The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is city or town.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Richard Gunther | The Ohio State University |
| Paul Beck | The Ohio State University |
Data collection
| Start |
|---|
| 2004 |
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za | info@data1st.org |
Datasets accessible in the DataFirst Research Data Centre or from the website of the Mershon Centre for International Security Studies
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.
Disclaimer and copyrights
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.
Copyright, Statistics South Africa
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | http://support.data1st.org/ |
Metadata production
DDI_ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2012-06-06
Metadata version
Version 1.1