The purpose of the survey was to gather data on the democratic  process in South Africa on behalf of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy

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Launching Democracy – 1993 and 1994 
South Africa 
 
 
 
 
 
Human Sciences Research Council 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SADA 0040 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Launching Democracy – 1993 and 1994, South Africa 
 
 
SADA 0040 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Principal Investigator 
 
Human Sciences Research Council 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1995 
 
South African Data Archive 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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South African Data Archive, National Research Foundation [distributor], 1995 
 
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STUDY DESCRIPTION 
 
 
SADA STUDY NUMBER: 0040 
 
TITLE:  Launching Democracy - 1993 and 1994, South Africa 
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: B. Johnson and L. Schlemmer 
 
DEPOSITOR:  Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) 
 
DATA COLLECTION AGENCY:  MarkData, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) 
 
MAIN SUBJECT:  Democratic Elections in South Africa 
 
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the survey was to gather data on the democratic  process in South 
Africa on behalf of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy. 
 
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION:  The survey was carried out in the PWV (Pretoria, Witswatersrand, 
Vereeniging), Natal and Western Cape areas. 
 
IMPORTANT VARIABLES: Political party support/protection/intention, voter influence, post 
election life expectations 
 
BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES: Population group, sex, age, religion, language, 
education, occupation, income 
 
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION: Face-to-face interview with structured questionnaire 
 
TYPE OF DATA:  survey 
 
DATE OF RESEARCH:  Phase I 16 November 1993 to 14 December 1993  
                                         Phase II 31 January 1994 to 26 February 1994 
 
LANGUAGE(S) OF WRITTEN MATERIAL:  INTRODUCTION: Afrikaans, translated to 
English 
 
EXTENT OF COLLECTION:  2 data files in SPSS and hardcopy documentation and 
questionnaire. 
 
Part 1: Data for 1993 
Number of cases:  2 140 
Number of records:  2 140 
Number of records per case: 3 
Logical record length:  80 
Number of variables:  114 
Number of kilobytes:  339 KB 
 
 
Part 2: Data for 1994 
Number of cases:  2 419 
Number of records:  2 419 
Number of records per case: 3 
Logical record length:  80 
Number of variables:  126 
Number of kilobytes:  416 KB 
 


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