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Attitudes of White South Africans Towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1996

South Africa, 1996
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zaf-csvr-atrc-1996-v1
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Gunnar Theissen, Brandon Hamber
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  • Data collection
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    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    zaf-csvr-atrc-1996-v1
    Title
    Attitudes of White South Africans Towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1996
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type
    Public Opinion Survey
    Series Information
    Theissen, Gunnar and Brandon Hamber. Attitudes of White South Africans towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Apartheid past, 1996 [dataset]. Version 1. Braamfontein: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation [producer], 1998. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/h1fy-3m52
    Abstract
    The principal purpose of this explorative telephone survey was to collect information on attitudes of white South Africans towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and related topics at the beginning of its public hearings in April-May 1996.
    Kind of Data
    Sample survey data
    Unit of Analysis
    Households and individuals

    Version

    Version Description
    v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution
    Version Date
    1998

    Scope

    Notes

    Demographic data collected included data on age; gender; highest educational level; current occupation; readership of newspapers; gross income; living area.
    Public opinion data was collected on: Attitudes towards the new democracy in South Africa; ethnic and national identity, political affiliation, attitudes towards affirmative action, land reform and opening of former white schools to black South Africans, attitudes towards human rights and civil liberties; death penalty; attitudes towards black South Africans (subtle racism scale); attitudes towards the apartheid past; knowledge of the TRC; sources of information on the TRC; attitudes towards amnesty for politically motivated human rights violations, attitudes towards investigation of past human rights violations, attitudes towards the TRC, reparations, compensation, and opinions about the political responsibility for repression of black communities.

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6] CESSDA

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    The survey had national coverage.
    Geographic Unit
    The "Telephone directory no." variable provides data on the city, region or province covered by the survey, for example, "Pretoria", "Vaal Triangle", "North-West"
    Universe
    "White' South Africans, 18 years or older.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Gunnar Theissen Free University of Berlin
    Brandon Hamber Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure
    A random sample of adult (18+) white South African households with a telephone (1996: 89%) was derived from a complete set of the latest edition of official Telkom phone books. The "next-birthday-method" was used for intra-household respondent selection (the respondent in the household is selected randomly by interviewing that member of the household, whose birthday is next). Black, Indian and Coloured respondents were excluded through an introductory question.
    Response Rate
    A maximum of six contact attempts were made at different times to speak to the selected respondent. The response rate was 56 Percent. See Theissen (1997, Chapter 4) for further details.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1996-05 1996-05

    access_policy

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town info@data1st.org
    Access conditions
    Licensed dataset, accessible under conditions
    Citation requirements
    Theissen, Gunnar and Brandon Hamber. Attitudes of White South Africans towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Apartheid past, 1996 [dataset]. Version 1. Braamfontein: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation [producer], 1998. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/h1fy-3m52

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID
    ddi-zaf-datafirst-atrc-1996-v1
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production
    2020-04-09

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Version 2
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