Description: The following topics were covered in this questionnaire: voter education, voter registration and participation, general perceptions on voting, voting behaviour and history, media and information, as well as respondent and household characteristics. Question 32 has been removed from the data.

This data set contains 2704 cases and 79 variables. Abstract: In order to assess the electoral landscape prior to the local government elections of December 2000, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) approached the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). The outcome was a two-phase research process involving both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

The specific purpose of the research was to determine the impact of the IEC's voter education programmes throughout the country and more generally, the extent to which the public was aware of and motivated to participate in the elections.

Face-to-face interview

National Population: Adults (aged 18 and older).

A sample of 2 704 voters was selected across each province of South Africa. Initial stratification was in terms of the lifestyle categorisations of each enumerator area (EA) in the country. EAs were selected randomly to ensure that sufficient numbers of respondents in each of the EA-types were included in the sample. In the cases of small components of the population, namely the Northern Cape and the Indian population in general, over-sampling took place to facilitate generalisability at provincial and population group levels.