South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) 2011: Questionnaire 1 - All provinces

Description:
The questions contained in SASAS questionnaire one for 2011 were asked of approximately 3500 respondents.

Topics included in the questionnaire are: democracy and governance, national identity and pride, intergroup relations, education,moral issues, crime and safety, personal wellbeing index, poverty, police confidence, tolerance, corruption, Batho Pele, voting, respondent characteristics, household characteristics, personal and household income variables.

The data set for dissemination contains 3057 cases and 447 variables.
Abstract:
The primary objective of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) is to design, develop and implement a conceptually and methodologically robust study of changing social attitudes and values in South Africa. In meeting this objective, the HSRC is carefully and consistently monitoring and providing insight into changes in attitudes among various socio-demographic groupings. SASAS is intended to provide a unique long-term account of the social fabric of modern South Africa, and of how its changing political and institutional structures interact over time with changing social attitudes and values.

The survey is conducted annually and the 2011 survey is the ninth wave in the series.

The core module will remain constant for subsequent annual SASAS surveys with the aim of monitoring change and continuity in a variety of socio-economic and socio-political variables. In addition, a number of themes will be accommodated in rotation. The rotating element of the survey consists of two or more topic-specific modules in each round of interviewing and is directed at measuring a range of policy and academic concerns and issues that require more detailed examination at a specific point in time than the multi-topic core module would permit.

Topics included in questionnaire one are: democracy and governance, national identity and pride, intergroup relations, education, moral issues, crime and safety, personal well-being index, poverty, police confidence, tolerance, corruption, voting, respondent characteristics, household characteristics, personal and household income variables.