IDASA Opinion Survey 1998
South Africa, 1998
Get Microdata
Reference ID
zaf-idasa-os-1998-v1.1
Producer(s)
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Electoral Institute of South Africa
Metadata
Created on
Oct 24, 2013
Last modified
Jun 20, 2020
Page views
193027
Downloads
4081
q50. which source do you consider to be the most important? (q50)
Data file: IDASA Opinion99 1998_1
Overview
Valid:
2200
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
565
loc_end_pos:
566
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 20
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | family/ friends | 87 |
4%
|
| 2 | tv news reports | 968 |
44%
|
| 3 | radio news reports | 674 |
30.6%
|
| 4 | radio advertisements | 26 |
1.2%
|
| 5 | newspaper reports | 263 |
12%
|
| 6 | newspaper advertisements | 8 |
0.4%
|
| 7 | newspaper editorials | 20 |
0.9%
|
| 8 | employer | 7 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | traditional chiefs | 13 |
0.6%
|
| 10 | community elders | 13 |
0.6%
|
| 11 | church | 7 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | trade union | 5 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | civic organisation | 17 |
0.8%
|
| 14 | street committee | 13 |
0.6%
|
| 15 | political parties | 19 |
0.9%
|
| 16 | election campaign | 5 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | government | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | other | 31 |
1.4%
|
| 19 | none | 18 |
0.8%
|
| 20 | don't know | 4 |
0.2%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.