Afrobarometer Survey Series Holdings and Descriptions

What is the Afrobarometer Series? "The Afrobarometer series was developed by select Africanist scholars with funds from a variety of sources: the National Science Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Danish Governance Trust Fund at the World Bank, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Michigan State University, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The series represents a large-scale, cross-national survey research project designed to systematically map mass attitudes to democracy, markets, and civil society in more than a dozen sub-Saharan African nations, and ultimately, to track the evolution of such attitudes in selected nations over time. More specifically, the series furnishes research data on democracy, governance, livelihoods, macroeconomics and markets, social capital, political regimes and transition, conflict and crime, political participation, and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Afrobarometer surveys are conducted periodically in such sub-Saharan African nations as Botswana, Cape Verde, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The series is partly modeled on Eurobarometer studies of the last 24 years, the new Eurobarometer studies of the last ten years, the Latinobarometer, and the East Asianbarometer. It thus enables comparison across continents."

Note: This description and all the data and documentation files on this page are taken from the ICPSR's collection of Afrobarometer data. For more information, please consult the ICPSR and/or the Afrobarometer home page.

Notes for Users: Below you will find a list of the files that are in the Electronic Data Center's holdings. Our holdings include data from Round I, Round II, and Round III of the Afrobarometer. Each list provides the title and year of the survey along with links to available downloads for each study. Users should consult the codebooks for details on the questions, answer sets, and sampling procedures.

For most studies, there is a codebook (in .pdf format) and an SPSS data file (in .sav format). With more recent studies, the data will also be available in SPSS portable format (.por) and in Stata format (.dta). In addition, there will be supplemental materials for certain studies, such as additional appendices or questionnaires, or syntax to create "user-defined" missing values in SPSS (.sps) or Stata (.do). Right-click on the appropriate link. If you are using Internet Explorer, choose "Save link as..." and then identify the appropriate directory on your computer. On Netscape or Mozilla, right-click then choose "Save link target as..." Once these files have downloaded successfully, you should be able to open them on your computer with the appropriate programs. The SPSS files should be ready to use in SPSS, while txt files should open with a program such as Notepad or Wordpad (available under "Accessories" in the Start menu). If you have any problems downloading files, or if you need help with converting files into different formats, please visit the EDC Help Pages or contact a staff member at the EDC.

Our holdings of Afrobarometer data are from the ICPSR. Additional data files are available via the Afrobarometer website.

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