[lbo-talk] polling SA

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 31 10:59:19 PST 2004


The latest Washington Post/Henry J. Kaiser Foundation/Harvard University survey has been released. This poll was conducted in South Africa to measure attitudes toward democracy on the 10th anniversary of the fall of all-white rule.

AAPOR members may be particularly interested in the video available on the website that captures on film how the survey was done. A washingtonpost.com videographer accompanied members of the Post/Kaiser/Harvard survey team to South Africa in October to record various stages of the survey process, including interviewer training and field work in the townships, cities and rural areas. One segment features the survey team negotiating with a Zulu traditional leader for permission to do interviews in his tribal area in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

The video link is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/sa/southAfrica.htm

The stories include:

Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa: Reports the overall survey findings.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36555-2004Mar30.html

The Klipspruit Two Rooms Women's Committee: A view of one of Soweto's poorest neighborhoods and the women who are struggling to make it better.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36586-2004Mar30.html

Orania: A profile of an isolated, all-white Afrikaner separatist community in the Great Karoo where residents work to create an Afrikaner homeland--no blacks or British descendants allowed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36597-2004Mar30.html

Additional poll results and stories based on those results will be published in the Post and on washingtonpost.com on Thursday.</x-charset>n



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