Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, economic conditions, and related issues in more than 35 countries in Africa. Through their findings, ordinary citizens can have a voice in policy-making processes that affect their lives.
Afrobarometer is the world’s leading research project on issues that affect ordinary African men and women. They collect and publish high-quality, reliable statistical data on Africa, which is freely available to the public.
Here at UCT, the data management team prepared country partners for Electronic Data Capture, including programming of instruments and technical assistance prior to fieldwork operations. The team also reviewed and cleaned all country datasets and prepared merged datasets. We finalised documentation to accompany datasets, including codebooks and Summaries of Results. We also dealt with data dissemination processes, including processing restricted and geocoded data requests and SPSS licensing to network members.
Jamy Felton oversaw the work of the team and acted as the main data contact person within the network and with donors and data users. She was responsible for dataset tracking and monitoring as well as data dissemination. She was assisted by Najib Ben Saad in data set cleaning as well as providing technical assistance to country partners. A team of data assistants and interns worked on dataset cleaning and finalising documentation to accompany the datasets.
For more information, visit: http://afrobarometer.org/
