Afrobarometer: Round 1.5 Survey of Namibia, 2002 (ICPSR 4234)

Principal Investigator(s): Keulder, Christiaan, Institute for Public Policy Research (Windhoek, Namibia)

Summary: The Afrobarometer project was designed to assess attitudes toward democracy, markets, and civil society in several sub-Saharan African nations, and to track the evolution of such attitudes in those nations over time. This particular survey was concerned with the attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Namibia. Respondents were asked to rate Namibia's President Nujoma and his administration's overall performance, and to state the most important issues facing the nation. Opinion... (more info)

Series: Afrobarometer Survey Series

• These data are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions. Because you are not logged in, we cannot verify that you will be able to download the data.

Keulder, Christiaan. Afrobarometer: Round 1.5 Survey of Namibia, 2002. ICPSR04234-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-22. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04234.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04234.v1

Export Citation:

• RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.)
• EndNote XML (EndNote X4.0.1 or higher)

This survey was funded by:

• United States Agency for International Development. Regional Center for Southern Africa (61-9813)
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
• Michigan State University

Summary:   The Afrobarometer project was designed to assess attitudes toward democracy, markets, and civil society in several sub-Saharan African nations, and to track the evolution of such attitudes in those nations over time. This particular survey was concerned with the attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Namibia. Respondents were asked to rate Namibia's President Nujoma and his administration's overall performance, and to state the most important issues facing the nation. Opinions were gathered on the role of the government in improving the economy, whether corruption existed in local and national government, whether government officials were responsive to problems of the general population, and whether local government officials, the police, the courts, the overall criminal justice system, the media, the Independent National Electoral Commission, and the government broadcasting service could be trusted. Respondents were polled on their knowledge of government officials, their level of personal involvement in political, governmental, and community affairs, and the inclusiveness of the government. Economic questions addressed the past, present, and future of the country's and the respondent's economic condition, and whether great income disparities are fair. Societal questions addressed whether everyone should be responsible for themselves and their own success or failure, what characteristics respondents used to identify themselves, whether it was easy to obtain assistance with securing food, water, schooling, and medical services, and by what methods respondents secured those things. Background variables include age, language spoken most at home, education, current employment status, employment status over the last 12 months, employment history, family financial situation over the last 12 months, monetary support system, whether a close friend or relative had died from AIDS, language used in interview, sex, ethnicity, religious affiliation, religious participation, type of physical disability, if any, type of housing, and respondent's attitude during the interview.

Subject Terms:   democracy, government, government performance, information sources, markets, national interests, political attitudes, political change, political corruption, political participation, political systems, public confidence, public opinion, quality of life, social attitudes, standard of living, trust in government

Geographic Coverage:   Africa, Namibia, Global

Time Period:  

• 2002-03--2002-05

Date of Collection:  

• 2002-03--2002-05

Universe:   Citizens of Namibia aged 18 years or older.

Data Types:   survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) Variable TOWN has three undocumented codes, 96, 97, and 98. (2) Variable Q6C has one undocumented code, 12. (3) Additional information on Afrobarometer research projects is provided on the Afrobarometer Web site.

Sample:   National probability sample.

Weight:   none

Response Rates:   Approximately 90 percent.

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  2005-11-22

• List all 307 variables in this study

• Search the variables in this study

Use any of the notification links to add this study to your RSS feed; you will then receive notification if the study is substantively updated.

• Citations exports are provided above.

• Export Study-level metadata (does not include variable-level metadata)

  • DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle

  • Dublin Core

  • MARC21 XML

  • DataCite XML

If you're looking for collection-level metadata rather than an individual metadata record, please visit our Metadata Records page.

• View Usage of this Study