zaf-nrb-nrs-2022-2023-v1
National Reading Survey 2022-2023
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South Africa | zaf |
Education Survey
The National Reading Survey (NRS) is part of the National Reading Barometer project commissioned and managed by the Nal’ibali Trust in partnership with the National Library of South Africa, with additional support from the Zenex Foundation, DGMT and the National Education Collaboration Trust. The NRS is a nationally representative survey of 4,250 South African adults aged 16 and above. The NRS describes the reading practices, preferences and contexts of adults, both in terms of reading for themselves and reading with children in their household. In addition to covering information about frequency, depth and types of reading, access to and preferences regarding reading materials, and attitudes/motivations related to reading, the survey has focus areas relating to library use, digital reading, reading with children and reading language preferences. The results of the 2022/23 reading survey will be compared over time, beginning with the results of the National Reading Survey 2016 (conducted by the South African Book Development Council) and surveys to be conducted in 2026 and 2030. The findings from the National Reading Surveys will inform research, policy and practice related to reading in South Africa.
Survey data
Households and individuals
v1: Edited, anonymised data distributed with non-commercial use and share-alike restrictions
2023-04-27
The National Reading Survey collects data on:
The findings from the National Reading Survey are nationally representative. The data is weighted by Province, population group and age group.
The lowest level of geographic aggregation in the data is Province.
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Nal’ibali Trust | National Reading Barometer |
National Library of South Africa |
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Nal'ibali Trust |
National Library of South Africa |
National Education Collaboration Trust |
D. G. Murray Trust |
Zenex Foundation |
The survey used a CATI instrument (Kobo toolbox) for data collection.
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2022-11 | 2023-03 |
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Social Surveys Africa |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Access under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC (Attribution, Non-Commercial use only) License
Nal’ibali Trust and National Library of South Africa. National Reading Survey 2022-2023 [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: Nal'ibali Trust and NLSA [producers], 2023. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/2vdc-xq88
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DataFirst Support | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | www.support.data1st.org |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2023-06-07
Version 1