SASAS survey hits the road
DATE: 28 November 2017
The Democracy Governance and Service Delivery research programme has launched the longitudinal study, South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). This is a survey on opinion among the South African population covering topics on a wide range of social matters such as communications, politics, education, unemployment, and the problems of the aged and inter-group relations.
The Democracy Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) research programme has launched the longitudinal study, South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS).
This is a survey on opinion amongst the South African population covering topics on a wide range of social matters such as communications, politics, education, unemployment, and the problems of the aged and inter-group relations.
A total 10 500 individuals in the country have been selected to participate.
- You can read more about SASAS here.
- SASAS is part of the HSRC's DGSD research programme.
- Once gathered and prepared, the SASAS data is made available.
- View the datasets.
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