Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011

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ZAF_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M

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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)

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Q26B1-SAF.Have you personally contacted a government department to raise an issue in the past year? (Q26B1_SAF)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

Overview

Valid: 2399

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

26. Here is a list of actions that people sometimes take as citizens. For each of these, please tell me whether you, personally, have done any of these things during the past year. [If Yes, read out options 2-4]. If not, would you do this if you had the chance?
B1-SAF. Contacted a government department to raise an issue

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Would never do this	934	38.9%
1	Would if had the chance	1090	45.4%
2	Once or twice	170	7.1%
3	Several times	145	6%
4	Often	46	1.9%
9	Don't know	14	0.6%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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