Identification
Survey ID number
zaf-daru-cnep-2009-v1
Title
Comparative National Elections Project, South Africa 2009
Country
| Name |
Country code |
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South Africa |
zaf |
Study type
Public Opinion Survey
Series Information
Democracy in Africa Research Unit (DARU). Comparative National Elections Project South Africa 2009, third phase [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: DARU [producer], 2010. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/hd4s-0s34
Abstract
This dataset is the election survey conducted in South Africa by the Democracy in Africa Research Unit at the University of Cape Town in 2009. The survey collects data using standard questions from two international election studies, the Comparative National Elections Survey (CNEP), and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). The Comparative National Elections Survey is coordinated by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University (https://u.osu.edu/cnep/). The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world, run by the Center for Political Studies and GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, in Germany, and the University of Michigan in the US (http://www.cses.org/). The South African study includes additional questions. Surveys conducted by IDASA in the 19990s, and the 2004, 2009 and 2015 CNEP surveys for South Africa are part of a series of South African surveys conducted by DARU, called the South African National Election Study.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data
Unit of Analysis
Individuals
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
The survey used a random, nationally representative, stratified, area probability cluster sample. Primary sampling units were census enumerator areas (EAs) selected as a random sample, with probability proportionate to population size. All EAs were stratified by 1) Province, 2) Urban/Rural and 3) Race. Within each EA, a skip interval of 10 dwellings to select a household was used. That is, walking in a designated direction away from the start point, selecting the 10th household for the first interview, counting dwellings on both the right and the left (and starting with those on the right if they are opposite each other). Once the household was chosen, the interviewer randomly selected an individual respondent within the household to be interviewed (altering gender quota). The total number of household in the sample was 1300.
Deviations from the Sample Design
If the household was vacant, if the household refused to participate, if the selected person refused to be interviewed, or if the selected respondent is not available after two callbacks, interviewers were instructed to move to the next house in the walk pattern (i.e. every tenth house). They were not permitted to substitute within a household
Response Rate
The response rate for the survey that the CSES Module appeared in was 34%.
Weighting
Two types of weights are included in the data: Those benchmarked to South Africa's 2014 midyear population estimates, and those benchmarked to sample size n=1300. People living in Northern Cape province, and coloured and Indian race group members were oversampled, and then weighted downward. Other variables (e.g. household size) were also used to adjust for any discrepancies between the original and realized sample. Weights use information on Urban/rural, race, age, total people in the household and total people over the age of 18.
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Access conditions
Public use files, available to all
Citation requirements
Democracy in Africa Research Unit (DARU). Comparative National Elections Project South Africa 2009, third phase [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: DARU [producer], 2010. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/hd4s-0s34
