Comparative National Elections Project 2004
South Africa, 2004
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Identification
Survey ID Number
ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M
Title
Comparative National Elections Project 2004
Subtitle
South Africa
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | zaf |
Study type
Public Opinion Survey [ind/pos]
Abstract
The Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) is a multi-year, multi-country examination of citizen voting behavior in democracies around the, world conducted by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, a unit of the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University. In addition to including the conventional factors in explaining vote decisions, it has pioneered a focus on how voters receive information about policies, parties, and candidates during election campaigns.
CNEP began in 1990 with surveys in the first national elections of the 1990s in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan. It expanded in 1993 to include eight more countries and additional questions. CNEP recently expanded again so that it now includes 35 national election surveys in 21 countries. It is now the third-largest international project of its kind. This dataset is a South African subset of the international dataset from the 2004 wave of the CNEP survey, CNEP III (South Africa was added as a survey country in this wave).
CNEP began in 1990 with surveys in the first national elections of the 1990s in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan. It expanded in 1993 to include eight more countries and additional questions. CNEP recently expanded again so that it now includes 35 national election surveys in 21 countries. It is now the third-largest international project of its kind. This dataset is a South African subset of the international dataset from the 2004 wave of the CNEP survey, CNEP III (South Africa was added as a survey country in this wave).
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Units of analysis in the survey are individuals
Version
Version Description
v1: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution
Version Date
2006
Scope
Notes
Among the survey topics are:
The role of mass media, discussion networks, secondary associations, and political parties as the four principal channels of political communications in democracies.
The impact of sociopolitical values on electoral behavior.
Voting determinants, including long-term factors such as social cleavages, value conflicts and partisanship, and short-term factors such as state of the economy and candidate attributes.
Determinants of voting turnout, including the impacts of individual characteristics, country electoral laws, and political communications.
The role of mass media, discussion networks, secondary associations, and political parties as the four principal channels of political communications in democracies.
The impact of sociopolitical values on electoral behavior.
Voting determinants, including long-term factors such as social cleavages, value conflicts and partisanship, and short-term factors such as state of the economy and candidate attributes.
Determinants of voting turnout, including the impacts of individual characteristics, country electoral laws, and political communications.
Topics
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| conflict, security and peace [4.1] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion [4.6] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
The survey had national coverage.
Geographic Unit
The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is city or town.
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Richard Gunther | The Ohio State University |
| Paul Beck | The Ohio State University |
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start |
|---|
| 2004 |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Access policy
Access authority
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | info@data1st.org | http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za |
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | http://support.data1st.org/ |
Access conditions
Datasets accessible in the DataFirst Research Data Centre or from the website of the Mershon Centre for International Security Studies
Citation requirements
Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Comparative National Elections Project 2004 [dataset]. Version 1 of a South African subset of the original dataset. Columbus, Ohio: Mershon Center [producer], 2006. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2012.
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
Copyright, Statistics South Africa
Metadata production
DDI Document ID
DDI_ZAF_2004_CNEP_v01_M
Producers
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
Date of Metadata Production
2012-06-06
DDI Document version
Version 1.1