Tag: public opinion surveys

Afrobarometer Public Opinion Surveys

The Afrobarometer survey allows public access to its data, with a two-year time lag. From a description found on its home page, the Afrobarometer is “a comparative series of public attitude surveys on democracy, markets, and civil society in Africe.” The site is full of resources, in addition to the data, such as publications (including downloadable working papers), results, news and events.

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Here are the countries surveyed and the years for each:

Country
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Other
Benin
—
—
2005
—
Botswana
1999
2003
2005
—
Cape Verde
—
2002
2005
—
Ghana
1999
2002
2005
1997
Kenya
—
2003
2005
—
Lesotho
2000
2003
2005
—
Madagascar
—
—
2005
—
Malawi
1999
2003
2005
—
Mali
2001
2002
2005
—
Mozambique
—
2002
2005
—
Namibia
1999
2003
2006
2002
Nigeria
2000
2003
2005
2001, 2007
Senegal
—
2002
2005
—
South Africa
2000
2002
2006
1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2004
Tanzania
2001
2003
2005
—
Uganda
2000
2002
2005
—
Zambia
1999
2003
2005
1993, 1996
Zimbabwe
1999
2004
2005
—

Informal Institutions and Democracy in Africa

Using results from the Afrobarometer surveys, Michael Bratton has written an article in a recent issue of Journal of Democracy (you must have access to JoD articles to read this) on the relationship between formal and informal institutions and democracy in a sample of African countries.

This is a blurb from the article about Afrobarometer: “[Bratton] is also founder and director of the Afrobarometer, a collaborative international survey-research project that measures public opinion regarding democracy, markets, and civil society in eighteen African countries.”