South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) 2013: Questionnaire 1 - All provinces

Description:
Topics covered in the questionnaire are: democracy and governance, national identity and pride, intergroup relations, education, moral issues, personal wellbeing index, poverty, crime and safety, police confidence, financial literacy, financial knowledge and understanding, voting, respondent characteristics, household characteristics, personal and household income variables.

The data set for dissemination contains 2885 cases and 694 variables.

Subsequent to the dissemination of version 1 of this data set it was discovered that the data contained client modules that were under embargo. These modules will be removed from the data and a new data set will be disseminated as version 2:

Human Sciences Research Council. South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) 2013: Questionnaire 1 Version 2 - All provinces. [Data set]. SASAS 2013 Q1. Version 2.0. Pretoria South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council [producer] 2013, Human Sciences Research Council [distributor] 2016. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.14749/1441894675

Retraction date: August 2015
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 2013 survey is the eleventh 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.