IDASA Opinion Survey 1998
South Africa, 1998
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zaf-idasa-os-1998-v1.1
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Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Electoral Institute of South Africa
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e26. what is the most important problem facing this country that government shou (e26_1)
Data file: IDASA Opinion99 1998_4
Overview
Valid:
3384
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
58
loc_end_pos:
59
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 57
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | food | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | water provision | 40 |
1.2%
|
| 3 | sanitation | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 4 | poverty | 61 |
1.8%
|
| 5 | land | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | provision of housing (housing) | 218 |
6.4%
|
| 7 | quality of houses | 1 |
0%
|
| 8 | provision health care | 45 |
1.3%
|
| 9 | quality of health care | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 10 | disease control | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | education provision | 124 |
3.7%
|
| 12 | quality of education | 12 |
0.4%
|
| 13 | education opportunities/ bursaries | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | electricity provision | 19 |
0.6%
|
| 15 | road/ street construction | 14 |
0.4%
|
| 16 | quality of roads | 8 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | transport | 0 |
0%
|
| 18 | general facilities | 11 |
0.3%
|
| 19 | general violence/ pagad | 70 |
2.1%
|
| 20 | political violence | 8 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | criminal violence (crime) | 1174 |
34.7%
|
| 22 | death sentence | 18 |
0.5%
|
| 23 | street vending | 0 |
0%
|
| 24 | drug and alcohol abuse | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 25 | child abuse | 14 |
0.4%
|
| 26 | general economy/ tourism | 103 |
3%
|
| 27 | investment | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 28 | prices | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 29 | taxes and rates | 11 |
0.3%
|
| 30 | job creation/ unemployment | 1124 |
33.2%
|
| 31 | wages, pensions, job security, unions | 29 |
0.9%
|
| 32 | equal rights | 11 |
0.3%
|
| 33 | minority rights/ property rights | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | discrimination | 25 |
0.7%
|
| 35 | affirmative action | 21 |
0.6%
|
| 36 | too much affirmative action | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 37 | general government | 9 |
0.3%
|
| 38 | corruption/ fraud | 69 |
2%
|
| 39 | government spending | 5 |
0.1%
|
| 40 | government responsiveness | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 41 | immigration/ influx of foreigners | 10 |
0.3%
|
| 42 | population explosion/ birth control | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 43 | elections | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 44 | political disputes | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 45 | lack of unity | 5 |
0.1%
|
| 46 | children/ street children | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 47 | better lifestyle | 5 |
0.1%
|
| 48 | environment | 0 |
0%
|
| 49 | aids | 10 |
0.3%
|
| 50 | moral decay | 10 |
0.3%
|
| 51 | inflexible labour laws | 1 |
0%
|
| 52 | care for aged/ disabled | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 53 | no comment | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 54 | other | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 55 | nothing | 5 |
0.1%
|
| 56 | don't know | 18 |
0.5%
|
| 57 | refused | 9 |
0.3%
|
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.