Quality of Life Survey 2015-2016, Round 4

South Africa, 2015 - 2016

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zaf-gcro-qols-2015-2016-v1

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Gauteng City-Region Observatory, University of Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)

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6.3 - If not, why not vote? (after coding of 'Other verbatim') (Q6_3)

Data file: qol-iv-2014-2015-v1

Overview

Valid: 6462

Invalid: 23540

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1475

loc_end_pos: 1478

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 1004

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not allowed to vote, for example not RSA citizen	1410	21.8%
2	Don't know who to vote for	450	7%
3	Does not think his/her vote will make any difference	1385	21.4%
4	Don't care	673	10.4%
5	No ID	523	8.1%
6	Don't like politics, broken promises, waste of time	1635	25.3%
7	Local elections don't matter	237	3.7%
8	Other	149	2.3%
1004	No response due to skip scenario	0	0%
Sysmiss		23540

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.

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