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Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017

South Africa, 2017
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Reference ID
zaf-etcp-cdpd-2017-v1
Producer(s)
Shaun Riley,
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Research unit on the Economics of Excisable Products
Metadata
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Created on
Jul 24, 2019
Last modified
Jun 02, 2020
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    zaf-etcp-cdpd-2017-v1
    Title

    Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Price Survey [hh/prc]
    Series Information

    Riley, Shaun. Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017 [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: Economics of Tobacco Control Project, UCT [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/hzzx-k808
    Abstract

    The full legalization of cannabis is currently being deliberated in South Africa. The aim of this survey was to better understand how the market operates by investigating how cannabis consumers respond to price changes and the factors associated with the price that consumers pay
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data
    Unit of Analysis

    Individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
    Version Date

    2017

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey collected data on demographic characteristics of respondents and respondents' incomes. Cannabis data included frequency of use, most recent cannabis transactions (amount purchased, price of purchase, and cannabis quality)
    Keywords
    cannabis marijuana prices

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    This survey has no geographic representivity

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Shaun Riley University of Cape Town
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Economics of Tobacco Control Project funder

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2017 2017
    Mode of data collection
    • Internet [int]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Shaun Riley University of Cape Town
    Supervision

    Ethics approval for data collection was received by the University of Cape Town's Ethics in Research Committee on the 10th of July 2017.
    Data Collection Notes

    Respondents were recruited primarily through social media, and through contacts with pro-cannabis organizations. Twitter and Facebook pages were created to inform potential respondents of the research. The 20-page questionnaire was administered online to respondents on a website called ganjanomics. Periodic 'posts' and 'tweets' were sent out as reminders during data collection.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public use files, available to all
    Citation requirements

    Riley, Shaun. Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017 [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: Economics of Tobacco Control Project, UCT [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/hzzx-k808

    Contacts

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

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-05-12

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 2
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