ABSTRACT: The survey focused on people's attitudes toward identity, diversity, citizenship, democracy, and democratic institutions. As part of this project, Public Opinion Service also asked an extensive series of questions for the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) about South Africans' attitudes towards migrants.

KEYWORDS: Citizenship; Democracy; Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA); Internal migration; Political culture

FOCUS AREA: Political Perceptions and Attitudes

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION: 3 500 structured personal interviews were conducted.

SAMPLING DESIGN: The study consisted of a sample which was nationally representative. The sample was drawn using a multi-stage, clustered random probability sample disproportionately stratified by province, population group and community size (metro, city, large town, small town, village and rural).

UNITS OF OBSERVATION: Individuals

DATE OF RESEARCH: 1997

EXTENT OF COLLECTION: 1 data file + electronic documentation

Please note that this dataset is NOT available in EXCEL FORMAT.

FILE SPECIFICATIONS:

Number of cases: 3 500

Number of records: 3 500

Number of records per case: 1

Logical record length: 80

Number of variables: 540

Number of kilobytes: 2 044 KB

PUBLICATIONS:

Lieberman, E. September 1998. "Paying for 'Us' Versus 'Them'? Citizen Attitudes Toward Income Tax Compliance." POS Reports 6.

Taylor, H. & Robert Mattes. July 1998. "Public Demands on Government: The People's Agenda." POS Reports 5.

Taylor, H. & Robert Mattes. February 1998. "Public Evaluations of and Demands on Local Government." POS Reports 3. (SEE CODEBOOK FOR MORE PUBLICATIONS)

NOTES: 1. WEIGHTING: Due to the disproportionate sample, it was necessary to weight the data up to the universe, i.e. the South African voting public. The sample was weighted according to province, age, gender, type of area, language, income and education and projected onto the universe. A weight variable has been included in the data set which enables users to analyse either the weighted or unweighted data depending on their requirements. 2. LANGUAGES: Questionnaires translated into English, Afrikaans, Pedi, S. Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana. Interviewers were proficient in all languages of the areas in which they conducted their fieldwork.

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