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Afrobarometer Survey 2000, Round 1

South Africa, 2000
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ZAF_2000_AFB-R1_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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Afrobarometer round 1 survey data.

Cases: 2200
Variables: 366

Variables

CASENUMB
DATE
Date of interview
Q1
Satisfaction with economic conditions
Q2
Evaluation of economic conditions
Q3
Economic expectations
Q4
Evaluation of personal economic conditions compared to other South Africans
Q4A
Overall direction in the country
Q5A
How do you currently obtain food
Q5B
How do you currently obtain food
Q5C
How do you obtain food
Q5D
How do you obtain food
Q6A
What other methods would you use to obtain food
Q6B
What other methods would you use to obtain food
Q6C
What other methods would you use to obtain food
Q7A
What safety measures do you have for your home
Q7B
What safety measures do you have for your home
Q7C
What safety measures do you have for your home
Q7D
What safety measures do you have for your home
Q8A
What other methods would you use to protect your home
Q8B
What other methods would you use to protect your home
Q8C
What other methods would you use to protect your home
Q9A
How do currently obtain health care
Q9B
How do currently obtain health care
Q9C
How do currently obtain health care
Q9D
How do currently obtain health care
Q10A
What other methods do you use to obtain health care
Q10B
What other methods do you use to obtain health care
Q10C
What other methods do you use to obtain health care
Q11A
How do you normally obtain cash income
Q11B
How do you normally obtain cash income
Q11C
How do you normally obtain cash income
Q11D
How do you normally obtain cash income
Q12A
What other methods do you use to obtain cash
Q12B
What other methods do you use to obtain cash
Q12C
What other methods do you use to obtain cash
Q13A
How often have you gone without enough food to eat
Q13B
How often have you felt unsafe from crime in your home
Q13C
How often have you gone without necessary medical treatment
Q13D
How often have you gone without a cash income
Q13E
How often have you gone without enough clean water to drink
Q13F
How often have you gone without shelter
Q13G
How often have you gone without electricity in your home
Q13H
How often did you have insufficient fuel to heat your home and cook your food
Q14A
Physical health reduce amount of work
Q14B
Worried/anxious about tiredness felt
Q15
Is there a nearby school which your kids could attend
Q16
Do you have an electricity hook-up into home
Q17
Do you have piped water into home
Q18A
How often do you attend church group meetings
Q18B
Attend self-help association
Q18C
Attend group concerned with local matters
Q18D
Attend local commercial organisation
Q18E
Attends group that looks after the community
Q18F
Attend a trade union
Q19
People responsible for well-being VS govt. responsible
Q20
Free to earn VS limited income
Q21
Start own business VS govt. employment
Q22
New business risky VS invest to start business
Q23A
Who should take responsibility for schools and clinics
Q23B
Responsibility for creating jobs
Q23C
Responsibility for building houses
Q23D
Responsibility for reducing crime
Q23E
Responsibility for buying and selling gold
Q23F
Responsibility to help farmers borrow money
Q24
Variety of goods at high prices VS shortages at low prices
Q25
Free health care low stds VS pay for better health care
Q26
Keep govt employees VS retrench govt employees
Q27
Govt own factories VS privatization
Q28A
What does democracy mean
Q28B
What does democracy mean
Q28C
What does democracy mean
Q29
Who is the deputy president
Q30
Who is the Minister of Finance
Q31
Member of parliament for this area
Q32
Your local councillor
Q33
Have you contacted govt official or political party official
Q34A
What type of official did you contact
Q34B
What type of official did you contact
Q34C
What type of official did you contact
Q34D
What type of official did you contact
Q34E
What type of official did you contact
Q35A
Paid a govt. official to get a job
Q35B
Paid govt. official to get a maintenance payment, loan or pension payment
Q35C
Paid govt. official to get water or electricity
Q35D
Paid govt. official to get housing or land
Q36
Contacted any other influential person
Q37A
What type of influencial person did you contact
Q37B
What type of influencial person did you contact
Q37C
What type of influencial person did you contact
Q38
Local traditional leader, chief or headman
Q39
Local chief interest in people
Q40
How much of the time can the local chief be trusted
Q41
How many chiefs or traditional leaders are involved in corruption
Q42A
How often do you get news from radio
Q42B
How often do you get news from TV
Q42C
How often do you get news from newspapers
Q43
Most people can be trusted VS you must be careful
Q44
Discuss political matters with friends
Q45
Do you follow what is happening in govt and public affairs
Q46A
Feel that you have little or no control over life
Q46B
Insufficient info about political life and govt actions
Q46C
Sometimes political and govt affairs are too complicated to understand
Q46D
Have to be careful what you do and say with regard to politics
Q47
Way you vote will make a difference VS no difference
Q48
Who is in power makes a difference VS no difference
Q49
Freeness and fairness of last national election
Q50A
Most important problems to be addressed by govt
Q50B
Most important problems to be addressed by govt
Q50C
Most important problems to be addressed by govt
Q50D
Single most important problem facing South Africa
Q51A
Rating of previous system of govt
Q51B
Rating of current system of govt
Q51C
Rating of future system (future)
Q52A
Anyone can freely say what they think
Q52B
Can join any political organization they choose
Q52C
Can live without fear of being arrested if innocent
Q52D
Free to choose who to vote for without feeling forced by others
Q52E
Everybody is treated equally and fairly by govt
Q52F
Safe from crime and violence
Q52G
Have adequate standard of living
Q52H
Access to basic necessities
Q52I
South Africans are equal to each other
Q53
One party to stand for elections and hold office
Q54
Decisions to be made by council of elders, traditional leaders, chiefs
Q55
Army to govern the country
Q56
President could decide everything
Q57
All decisions made by economic experts rather than by government
Q58
Country returned to aparthheid
Q59
Govt elected by accepted procedures
Q60
Govt exercises power in acceptable way
Q61
Constitution expresses values and aspirations of South African people
Q62
Govt should have the final decision
Q63A
How well is govt creating jobs
Q63B
How well is govt building houses
Q63C
How well is govt ensuring that prices remain stable
Q63D
How well does govt reduce crime
Q63E
How well is govt improving health services
Q63F
How well does govt address the educational needs of all South Africans
Q63G
How well does govt manage the economy
Q63H
How well does govt deliver basic services like water and electricity
Q63I
How well does govt ensure that everyone has sufficient land
Q63J
Affirmative Action
Q63K
Fighting corruption in govt
Q63L
Uniting SAs into one nation
Q63M
Narrowing income gap
Q63N
How well is govt distributing welfare payments to those who are entitled to it
Q63O
Making reparations to TRC victims
Q63P
Preventing spread HIV
Q63Q
SAs response to situation in Zimbabwe
Q64
How interested is the President in your well-being
Q65
How much of the time can you trust the President
Q66
What is your opinion of the presidents job performance
Q67
How many govt officials do you think are involved in corruption
Q68
How interested is parliament in your well-being
Q69
How much of the time can you trust parliament
Q70
Parliament's job performance
Q71
How many people in parliament involved in corruption
Q72
How many civil servants are involved in corruption
Q72A
How interested is provincial govt in your well-being
Q72B
How much of the time can you trust provincial govt
Q72C
Premier's job performance
Q72D
Provincial govt job performance
Q72E
How many people in prov govt are involved in corruption
Q73
How interested is you local councillor in your well-being
Q74
How much of the time can you trust your local govt
Q75
How has your local govt performed its job
Q76
How many officials in your local govt are involved in corruption
Q76A1
Likelihood of police catching and charging those committing serious crime
Q76A2
Likelihood of court conviction
Q76A3
Likelihood of SARS penalizing tax evaders
Q76A4
Illegal services: Likelihood of council cutting services
Q76A5
Rates evasion: Likelihood of council cutting services
Q77A
Comparison of current and past govt effectiveness
Q77B
Comparison of current and past govt interest
Q77C
Comparison of current and past govt corruption
Q77D
Comparison of current and past govt trustworthiness
Q77E
Able to enforce the law
Q77E1
Life today compared to under apartheid
Q78A
How much of the time can you trust the army
Q78B
How much of the time can you trust the police
Q78C
How much of the time can you trust the courts of law
Q78C1
How much of the time can you trust the criminal justice system
Q78D
How much of the time can you trust the Independent Electoral Commission
Q78E
How much of the time can you trust the South African Broadcasting Corporation
Q78F
How much of the time can you trust press or newspapers
Q79
Preference for democratic VS non-democratic govt
Q80
Have you ever heard anything about the Gear programme
Q81
Gear programme's effect on everyday life
Q82
Gear has helped VS hurt most people
Q83
Besides being South African, which group do you feel you belong to
Q84A
Feel proud to be part of this group
Q84B
Want children to think of themselves as part of group
Q84B1
Being part of this group is a very important part of how you see yourself
Q84C
People belonging to this group are the best
Q84D
Stronger ties to group than to other South Africans
Q84D1
This group is very different from other South Aficans
Q84E
It makes you proud to be called a South African
Q84F
Children should think of themselves as South African
Q84F1
Being a SA is a very important part of how you see yourself
Q84G
Regardless of group you belong to, if you are SA, should be treated equally
Q84H
Desirable to create a united SA out of all the groups
Q84H1
It is possible to create a united SA nation
Q85
Your groups economic condition compared to others
Q86
Identity treated unfairly by the govt
Q87
Govt more or less interested in what your group has to say
Q88
Govt represents interests of all South Africans or just one group
Q89
Which groups interest is mostly represented by govt
Q90
Which is true for you with regards to the 1999 national elections
Q91A
Address problems facing the community with others
Q91B
Attend election rally
Q91C
Work for political candidate or party
Q91D
Write a letter to newspaper
Q92A
Claimed govt benefits to which you are not entitled
Q92B
Avoid paying municipal/local rates
Q92C
Avoid paying income taxes
Q92D
Get services without paying
Q93A
Attend a demonstration or protest march
Q93B
Boycott rates, services and taxes
Q93C
Partake in sit-ins, disruption of government meetings
Q93D
Use force or violent methods
Q94
Support for shutting down media
Q95A
Response to shutting down media
Q95B
Response to shutting down media
Q95C
Response to shutting down media
Q95D
Response to shutting down media
Q95E
Response to shutting down media
Q96
Support for dismissing judges
Q97A
Response to dismissing judges
Q97B
Response to dismissing judges
Q97C
Response to dismissing judges
Q97D
Response to dismissing judges
Q97E
Response to dismissing judges
Q98
Support for banning political parties
Q99A
Response to banning political parties
Q99B
Response to banning political parties
Q99C
Response to banning political parties
Q99D
Response to banning political parties
Q99E
Response to banning political parties
Q100
Support for the suspension of parliament and cancellation of next elections
Q101A
Response to suspension of parliament
Q101B
Response to suspension of parliament
Q101C
Response to suspension of parliament
Q101D
Response to suspension of parliament
Q101E
Response to suspension of parliament
Q101A1
Willingness to live under non-elected leader
Q102
Patience to deal with problems VS solve now
Q103A
Democratic society and majority rule
Q103B
Democratic society and freedom to criticise the govt
Q103C
Democratic society and regular elections
Q103D
Democratic society and at least 2 parties competing
Q103E
Democratic society and basic necessities
Q103F
Democratic society and jobs for everyone
Q103G
Democratic society and equal education
Q103H
Democratic society and small income gap
Q104
Need a strong leader VS democracy always best
Q105
Is South Africa democratic?
Q106
How satisfied are you with democracy in South Africa
Q107A
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q107B
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q107C
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q107D
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q107E
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q107F
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q108
Are you close to any political party
Q109
Which party are you close to
Q110
How close do you feel to this party
Q110A1
TRC was important for building a united SA nation
Q110A2
National reconciliation does not require intervention
Q110A3
Reconciliation requires that South Africans understand one another better
Q110A4
National reconciliation requires material compensation for victims
Q110A5
National reconciliation requires that people forgive one another
Q110A6
National reconciliation requires forgetting the past
Q110A7
National reconciliation requires the healing of memories
Q110A8
National reconciliation requires amnesty
Q110A9
It is my responsibility as a citizen to contribute to the process of reconciliation
Q111
How old were you on your last birthday
Q112
What is your home language
Q113
What is the highest grade, std, form completed
Q114
Is your job part-time or full-time; looking for work
Q115
Over the last 12 months have you been without a cash job more than a month
Q116
For how many months were you unemployed
Q117
Do you do regular work without cash pay
Q118
What is your present or last occupation
Q119
Type of occupation
Q120
Do you know of a close friend or relative who died of AIDS
Q120A1
National govt vote
Q120A2
Local govt vote - party
Q120A3
Local govt vote - candidate
Q121
Suburb
Q123A
District/province
Q123B
Country
Q124A
Language interview was conducted in
Q124B
Language interview was conducted in
Q124C
Language interview was conducted in
Q125
Respondents gender
Q126
Respondents race
Q127
Did respondent have missing limbs
Q128
Was respondent blind, or nearly blind
Q129
Did respondent cough repetedly during the interview
Q130
What type of shelter does respondent live in
Total: 366
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