Description:
This data set contains responses of South African legible voters in the 1999 national and provincial assembly elections aged 18 years and older.
All 214 selected voting stations were visited on election day. The number of voters interviewed was 11 140 and the data set contains 28 variables.
The questionnaire questions included the distance traveled to the voting station, means of transport utilised, time spent in the voting queue, perception of IEC officials' competence, and perception of the freeness and fairness of the election.
Abstract:
The intention of the survey was to ascertain the degree to which voters consider the poll to have been conducted in a manner that is free and fair to all voters and political parties.
The poll focused on the following issues: the extent to which various logistical matters impacted on voter participation, an assessment by voters of the free and fairness of the elections - including possible levels if intimidation.
The study method comprised brief (5-minute) interviews with randomly selected voters exiting from the 214 selected voting stations. Voters were asked sixteen questions concerning their experiences on election day.
The prime target population was therefore individuals aged 18+ who reside in South Africa and who were registered to vote in the 1999 national elections and voted. As voters exited these voting stations they were interviewed.
Face-to-face interview
The study was conducted among South Africans who voted in the 1999 National Elections. The target population for the voter component of the study was individuals aged 18 years and older who were registered to vote in the 1999 elections.
The survey was conducted at randomly selected voting stations in all nine provinces and stratified by metropolitan, urban and rural localities. The number of stations surveyed in each province ranged from 30 each in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to 20 in the less populated provinces. At each voting station, an average of fifty voters were interviewed after they had cast their votes.
Number of surveyed voting stations and respondents by province:
Province
Voting Stations Sampled
Expected sample
Eastern Cape
29
1526
Free State
20
1047
Gauteng
30
1547
KwaZulu-Natal
30
1617
Mpumalanga
18
910
Northern Cape
20
1001
Northern Province
22
1159
North West
20
939
Western Cape
25
1395
Total
214
11140
