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Information technology (IT) Training Needs
No full textThis project commissioned by Q Data Consulting was designed to obtain and gather data to establish the needs for Information Technology (IT) training amongst the top 250 companies in the PWV area, now Major Gauteng Area. Four interviewers were recruited for this project conducted as a telephone survey. The interviewers were selected from a list of persons who had already completed a training course in telephone interviewing. All four interviewers were also experienced in telephone surveying. Each fieldwork organiser at the HSRC conducted training of interviewers. In order to ensure that a minimum of 100 interviews conducted, approximately 215 telephone numbers were dialled, in some instances up to three times. A systematic random sample was drawn from the list of the top 250 companies. Initially only companies in major Gauteng area were drawn. However, due to not enough numbers being available, the sample was extended to incorporate companies that fell outside of major Gauteng area. This figure, however, was minimal, with 91 interviews in major Gauteng area (PWV) and the remainder in the rest of Gauteng, Cape, Port Elizabeth and Natal giving a total of 100 interviews. The survey was conducted over two days from 07 to 08 October 1993. Telephone numbers were dialled during the day between 08h30 and 16h00. The checking of the questionnaires and the coding of the open-ended questions were done every day. More than 15% of the completed questionnaires were controlled for correctness. Control was achieved in two ways: by listening in while the interview was being conducted and by calling respondents back and controlling for specific questions previously asked. The full quota of questionnaires was realised
IDASA National Election Survey, 1994
No full textThis study focused on the 1994 general election and specifically on voting intention, attitudes towards democracy, economic evaluations and various other political issues
October Household Survey, 1995
No full textThe October household survey (OHS) is the official survey undertaken by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) with the specific aim to make information available for the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). The OHS is one of the so-called presidential projects and provides valuable information regarding the formulation of policy and the planning and implementation of the RDP. The OHS is an annual sample survey that was undertaken for the first time in 1993. The original purpose of the OHS was to fill the gap that resulted from the suspension of the Current Population Survey (CPS) amongst Blacks in 1990 and amongst Coloureds and Indians in 1991, as well as the suspension of the related survey on the informal sector. Since 1994, the main purpose of the OHS has been to collect RDP information with regard to households and individuals according to the nine provinces. The questions included are on: particulars of and services in the dwelling; perceived quality of life; socio-biographic information; RDP-related information on unemployment; the informal and formal sectors; statistics on births and deaths.
KEYWORDS: Employment; Household surveys; Housin
Attitudes of White South Africans Towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Apartheid Past, May 1996
No full textThe principal purpose of this explorative telephone survey was to collect information on attitudes of white South Africans towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and related topics at the beginning of its public hearings in April - May 1996. The following topics were included: Attitudes toward the new democracy in South Africa; ethnic and national identification; political affiliation; attitudes towards affirmative action, land reform and the opening of former white schools to black South Africans; attitudes towards human rights and civil liberties; death penalty; attitudes towards blacks (subtle racism scale); attitudes towards the racism past; knowledge of the TRC; sources of information over the TRC; attitudes towards amnesty for political motivated human rights violations; attitudes towards investigation of part human rights violations; attitudes towards the TRC, reparation, compensation; opinions about the political responsibility for the repression of black communities
Child Abuse Among High School Children in the Northern Province of South Africa
No full textThis study constituted a cross-sectional investigation into child sexual, psychological, physical, emotional and ritualistic forms of abuse among high school students in the Northern Province of South Africa. 414 students in standard nine and ten in three high schools filled in a retrospective self-rating questionnaire in a classroom setting. The questionnaire asked for the demographic variables of the participants; psychological, physical and emotional abusive experiences from their parents or adult caretakers before the age of 17 years, and ritualistic abusive experiences before the age of 17 years; and finally, for the self-perception of the participants about his or her being abused as a child, and his or her overall rating of own-childhood
IDASA Political Culture Study, 1997
No full textThe survey focused on people's attitudes toward identity, diversity, citizenship, democracy, and democratic institutions. As part of this project, Public Opinion Service also asked an extensive series of questions for the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) about South Africans' attitudes towards migrants
Detective Training : a Basic Needs Analysis
No full textThe Policing Priorities and Objectives for 1997/1998 introduced five policing and six organisational focus areas. Three of the organisational focus areas identified the requirements for improved training, in particular for investigators. The Executive Report and Recommendations of a United Kingdom Policy Advisory Team, following a visit to the South African Police Service in July 1997 clearly stated that the detective training is bein delivered in some of the provinces but the course content and delivery was considered to be outdated and contrary to the Service vision of occupational and post-specific competency based training. The low levels of professionalism and lack of quality training among the detectives was also evident in the results from the 1996 Internal Climate Study, where the majority of detectives held erroneous perceptions concerning the so-called protection of criminals by the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. In the Internal Climate Study, it also emerged that, nothwithstanding the fact that more members of the detective service than members performing other functions held the view that they were correctly placed according to their skills, they felt unsafe in their work, did not receive sufficient support from SAPS helping professionals, did not see a prosperous future for themselves in the organisation and also experienced more stress in their work situation than a year ago. In the light of the above, the Sub-Component Research of the Division National Management Services was commissioned to do a survey amongst the detectives to determine their basic needs for training. The data gathered by means of the survey would put the committee in the position to determine more clearly the extent of the backlog in the detective training, as well as the types of skills required to perform their line functions better
October Household Survey, 1996
No full textDuring October 1996, under the Census 1996 motto "Count us in", a hundred thousand employees of Statistics South Africa fanned out across the cities, towns, townships, informal settlements, villages, farms and rural areas of the country. Their task was to record the details of people living in more than nine million households of South Africa, as well as those in hostels, hotels and prisons. By contrast, Census 1996 was the first nation wide census since the splitting up of the country under apartheid after 1970 and sought to apply the same methodology to everyone: visiting the household, and obtaining details about all its members from a representative who was either interviewed, or else filled in the questionnaire in the language of choice
Perceptions of Sociopolitical Change in South Africa (Whites, Coloureds, Indians, Blacks), 1986
No full textThis survey forms part of a long-term project to study people's expectations of the future and perceptions of sociopolitical change. It was aimed at polling the views of the people of South Africa regarding the future, their confidence in the leadership and the group policy. In addition, a further aim was to collect data on people's views on political change which was taking place in South Africa
Perceptions of Sociopolitical Change in South Africa (Whites, Blacks), 1989
No full textThis survey forms part of a long-term project to study people's expectations of the future and perceptions of sociopolitical change. It was aimed at polling the views of the people of South Africa regarding the future, their confidence in the leadership and the group policy. In addition, a further aim was to collect data on people's views on political change which was taking place in South Africa