Africa - Afrobarometer Survey 2014-2015, Merged 36 Country

AFR
Reference ID afr-afr36-2014-2015-v1
Year 2014 - 2015
Country Africa
Producer(s) Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) - Ghana
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR) - South Africa
Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP
Sponsor(s) Department for International Development - DFID - Funder
Swedish Internation Development Cooperation Agency - SIDA - Funder
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Funder
World Bank - WB - Funder
Collection(s)
Afrobarometer
Created on
Feb 15, 2018
Last modified
Jul 27, 2020
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Overview
Identification
Country
Africa
Title
Afrobarometer Survey 2014-2015

Subtitle
Merged 36 Country

Study Type
Public Opinion Survey
Recommended Citation
Afrobarometer Project. Afrobarometer 6 Merged 36 Country Survey 2014-2015 [dataset]. Version 1. International: Afrobarometer [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/zy79-z053

ID Number
afr-afr36-2014-2015-v1
Version
Version Description
v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution

Production Date
2017
Overview
Abstract
The Afrobarometer is a comparative series of public attitude surveys that assess African citizen's attitudes to democracy and governance, markets, and civil society, among other topics. The surveys have been undertaken at periodic intervals since 1999. The Afrobarometer's coverage has increased over time. Round 1 (1999-2001) initially covered 7 countires and was later extended to 12 countries. Round 2 (2002-2004) surveyed citizens in 16 countries. Round 3 (2005-2006) 18 countries, Round 4 (2008) 20 countries and Round 5 (2011-2013) surveyed citizens in 34 countries. The 36 African countries covered in Round 6 (2014-2015) are:

Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The survey covered 34 countries in Round 7 (2016-2018).

Kind of Data
Sample survey data

Units of Analysis
Households and individuals

Scope
Notes
Each Afrobarometer survey collects data about individual attitudes and behavior, including innovative indicators especially relevant to developing societies. This includes the following topics:

• Democracy - Popular understanding of, support for, and satisfaction with democracy, as well as any desire to return to, or experiment with, authoritarian alternatives.

• Governance - The demand for, and satisfaction with, effective, accountable and clean government; judgments of overall governance perfomance and social service delivery.

• Livelihoods - How do African families survive? What variety of formal and informal means do they use to gain access to food, shelter, water, health, employment and money?

• Macro-economics and markets - Citizen understandings of market principles and market reforms and their assessments of economic conditions and government performance at economic management.

• Social capital - Whom do people trust? To what extent do they rely on informal networks and associations? What are their evaluations of the trustworthiness of various institutions?

• Conflict and crime - How safe do people feel? What has been their experience with crime and violence?

• Participation - The extent to which ordinary people join in development efforts, comply with the laws of the land, vote in elections, contact elected representatives, and engage in protest. The quality of electoral representation.

• National identity - How do people see themselves in relation to ethnic and class identities? Does a shared sense of national identity exist?

Coverage
Geographic Coverage
The survey has national coverage in the following 36 African countries: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde. Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Geographic Unit
The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province/region.

Universe
The sample universe for Afrobarometer surveys includes all citizens of voting age within the country. In other words, we exclude anyone who is not a citizen and anyone who has not attained this age (usually 18 years) on the day of the survey. Also excluded are areas determined to be either inaccessible or not relevant to the study, such as those experiencing armed conflict or natural disasters, as well as national parks and game reserves. As a matter of practice, we have also excluded people living in institutionalized settings, such as students in dormitories and persons in prisons or nursing homes.

Producers and Sponsors
Primary Investigator(s)
NameAffiliation
Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR) South Africa
Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP) Benin
Institute for Development Studies (IDS) Kenya
Michigan State University (MSU) United States
University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
Funding
NameAbbreviationRole
Department for International Development DFIDFunder
Swedish Internation Development Cooperation Agency SIDAFunder
United States Agency for International Development USAIDFunder
World Bank WBFunder
Metadata Production
Metadata Produced By
NameAbbreviationAffiliationRole
DataFirstUniversity of Cape TownMetadata producer
Date of Metadata Production
2020-07-27
DDI Document Version
Version 4


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