South African Social Attitudes Survey 2006

South Africa, 2004

Human Sciences Research Council

Identification

IDNO

zaf-hsrc-sasas-2006-v1

Title

South African Social Attitudes Survey 2006

Country

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Other Household Health Survey [hh/hea]

Abstract

The primary objective of SASAS is to design, develop and implement a conceptually and methodologically robust study of changing social attitudes and values in South Africa to be able to carefully and consistently monitor and explain changes in attitudes amongst various socio-demographic groupings. The SASAS explores a wide range of value changes, including the distribution and shape of racial attitudes and aspirations, attitudes towards democratic and constitutional issues, and the redistribution of resources and power. Moreover, there is also an explicit interest in mapping changing attitudes towards some of the moral issues that confront and are fiercely debated in South Africa, such as gender issues, AIDS, crime and punishment, governance, and service delivery. The SASAS is intended to provide a unique long-term account of the social fabric of modern South Africa, and of how its changing political and institutional structures interact over time with changing social attitudes and values.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

The units of analysis in the study are households and individuals

Version

Version Description

v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution

Version Date

2010

Scope

Notes

The thematic content of the survey includes democracy, identity, public services, social values, crime, voting, demographics, families and family authority

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
religion and values [13.5]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
social behaviour and attitudes [13.6]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey has national coverage

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province

Universe

The population under investigation includes adults aged 16 and older in private households in South Africa

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Human Sciences Research Council

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sampling frame for the survey is the Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) Master Sample, which was designed in 2002 and consists of 1000 primary sampling units (PSUs). The 2001 population census enumerator areas (EAs) were used as PSUs. These PSUs were drawn, with probability proportional to size, from a pre-census 2001 list of EAs provided by Statistics South Africa. The Master Sample excludes special institutions (such as hospitals, military camps, old age homes, school and university hostels), recreational areas, industrial areas and vacant EAs. It therefore focuses on dwelling units or visiting points as secondary sampling units, which have been defined as ‘separate (non-vacant) residential stands, addresses, structures, flats, homesteads. As the basis of the 2003 SASAS round of interviewing, a sub-sample of 500 PSUs was drawn from the HSRC’s Master Sample. Three explicit stratification variables were used, namely province, geographic type and majority population group.
Number of units: Questionnaire 1: 2 497 cases realised from 3 500 addresses; questionnaire 2: 2 483 cases realised from 3 500 addresses; combined : 4980 cases

Weighting

Data for the combined dataset is available with the individual weight (for analysis at individual level) as well as household weight (when analysis are done at household level).

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2004-08	2004-10

Time periods

Start date
2006-07

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Questionnaires

To accommodate the wide variety of topics that was included in the 2006 survey, two questionnaires were administered simultaneously. Apart from the standard set of demographic and background variables, each version of the questionnaire contained a harmonised core module that remains constant from round to round, with the aim of monitoring change and continuity in a variety of socio-economic and socio-political variables. In addition, a number of themes are accommodated on a rotational basis. This rotating element of the survey consists of two or more topic-specific modules in each round of interviewing and is directed at measuring a range of policy and academic concerns and issues that require more detailed examination at a specific point in time than the multi-topic core module would permit.

Questions for the core module were asked of both samples (3 500 respondents each - 7 000) of which 5 843 realised.

The ISSP module:
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is run by a group of research organisations, each of which undertakes to field annually an agreed module of questions on a chosen topic area. SASAS 2003 represents the formalisation of South Africa's inclusion in the ISSP, the intention being to include the module in one of the SASAS questionnaires in each round of interviewing. Each module is chosen for repetition at intervals to allow comparisons both between countries (membership currently stands at 45) and over time. In 2005, the chosen subject was work orientation, and the module was carried in version 2 of the questionnaire (Qs.98-169).

The standard questionnaires dealt with democracy, identity, public services, social values, crime, voting, demographics, families and family authority

Rotating modules:
Questionnaire 1: Tourism and leisure, health, poverty and social exclusion, family life,
Questionnaire 2: Intergroup relations, media and communication, soccer world cup, work and welfare, ISSP module (role of government), democracy part 2.

Access policy

Access authority

Name	URL
Human Sciences Research Council	http://curation.hsrc.ac.za/Datasets-TAAMAA.phtml

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
DataFirst Helpdesk	University of Cape Town	support@data1st.org	http://support.data1st.org/

Access conditions

Licensed dataset, accessible under conditions.

Citation requirements

Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) to acknowledge Copyright where appropriate. Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators or copyright holders and the funders of the Data Collections (if different) bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation.

Recommended citation:
Human Sciences Research Council. South African Social Attitudes Survey 2006 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council [producer], 2011. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

By accessing the data, you give assurance that
• the data and documentation will be used solely for educational, scholarly and nonprofit purposes,
• the data and documentation will not be duplicated or distributed without prior approval from the HSRC,
• the confidentiality of individuals/organisations in the data will be preserved at all times and that no attempt will be made to obtain or derive information relating specifically to identifiable individuals/organisations,
• the HSRC will be acknowledged in all published works based on the data and documentation
• the HSRC will be informed of any publications resulting from work based in whole or in part on the data and documentation, and
• the HSRC will not be held liable for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of the data. The data is provided on an "as is" basis and without warranty or liability of any kind.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

ddi-zaf-datafirst-sasas-2006-v1

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	Metadata Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2013-04-23

DDI Document version

Version 1