Satisfaction with Economic conditions
Evaluations of Economic conditions
Economic expectations
Evaluations of personal economic conditions compared to other Batswana
How do you currently obtain food
What other methods would you use to obtain food?
What safety measures do you have for your home?
What other safety measures would you use?
How do you currently obtain health care?
What other methods would you use to obtain health care?
How do you normally obtain cash income?
What other methods would you use to obtain a cash income?
How often have you gone without enough food to eat?
How often have you felt unsafe from crime in your home?
How often have you gone without necessary medical treatment?
How often have you gone without a cash income?
How often have you gone without enough clean water to drink or cook with?
How often have you gone without shelter?
How often have you gone without electricity in your home?
How often did you have insufficient fuel to heat your home and to cook with?
How much physical health reduce amount of work?
How much so worried or anxious you felt tired?
Is there a nearby school which your kids could attend?
Do you have an electricity hook-up into home?
Do you have piped water into home?
How often do you attend church group meetings?
Attend self-help association?
Attend group concerned with local matters?
Attend local commercial organisation?
Attends group that looks after the community?
Attend a trade union?
People more responsible for well-being VS govt. responsibilty
Free to earn VS limited income
Start own business VS govt. employment.
New business risky VS invest to start business
Who should take responsibilty for schools and clinics?
Responsibility for creating jobs?
Responsibility for building houses?
Responsibility for reducing crime?
Responsibility for buying or selling diamonds?
Responsibility to help farmers borrow money?
Variety of goods at high prices VS shortages at low prices?
Free medicine VS paid medicine for better health care
Keep govt employees VS retrench govt employees
Govt own factories VS selling it to private Businesses and individuals
What does democracy mean?
Who is the vice president?
Who is the minister of finance?
Member of parliament for this constituency?
Your local councillor?
Have you contacted govt official or political party official?
Type of official?
Paid a govt. official to get a job?
Paid govt. official to get a maintenance payment, loan or pension?
Paid govt. official to get water or electricity?
Paid govt. offical to get housing or land?
Contacted any other influential person?
What type of influential person did you contact?
Type of influential person contacted
Local traditional leader, chief or headman?
Local chiefs interest in people?
How much of the time can local chief be trusted?
How many chiefs or traditional leaders are involved in corruption?
How often do you get news from radio?
How often do you get news from tv?
How often do you get news from newspapers?
Most people can be trusted VS you must be careful of people?
Discuss political matters with friends?
Do you follow what is happening in govt and public affairs?
Feel that you have little or no control over life?
Insufficient info about political life and govt. actions?
Sometimes political and govt. affairs are too complicated to understand?
Have to be careful what you do and say with regards to politics in this country?
Way you vote will make a difference VS it won't make a difference.
Who is in power makes a difference VS it doesn't make a difference
How would you rate the freeness and fairness of last national election?
Most important problems to be addressed by govt.
Anyone can freely say what they think?
Can join any political organisation they choose.
Can live without fear of being arrested if done nothing wrong
Free to choose who to vote for without feeling forced by others
Everybody is treated equally and fairly by govt.
Safe from crime and violence
Have adequate standard of living
Access to basic necessities
Batswana are equal to each other
One party to stand for elections and to stand for office.
Decisions to be made by council of elders, traditional leaders or chiefs.
Army governed the country?
President could decide everything?
All decisions made by economic experts rather than by govt.?
Country returned to British Colonial rule?
Govt elected by accepted procedures.
Govt. exercises power in acceptable way.
Constitution expresses values and aspirations of Batswana
Govt should have the ultimate decision whether people agree with it or not.
How well is govt creating jobs?
How well is govt building houses?
How well is govt ensuring that prices remain stable?
How well does govt reduce crime?
How well is govt improving health services?
How well does govt address educational needs of all Batswana?
How well does govt manage the economy?
How well does govt deliver basic services like water?
How well does govt ensure that everyone has sufficient land?
How interested is the President in your well-being?
How much of the time can you trust the President to do what is right?
What is your opinion of the president's job performance?
How many govt officials do you think are involved in corruption?
How interested is parliament in the well-being of you?
How much of the time can you trust parliament to do what is right?
What do you think about the way parliament has performed its job?
How many people in parliament do you think are involved in corruption?
How many civil servants do you think are involved in corruption?
How interested is your local councillor about your well-being?
How much of the time can you trust your local govt to do what is right?
How has your local govt. performed its job?
How many officials in your local govt are involved in corruption?
Comparison of current and past govt effectiveness
Comparison of current and past govt interest.
Comparison of current and past govt corruption
Comparison of current and past govt. trustworthiness
How much of the time can you trust the army?
How much of the time can you trust the police?
How much of the time can you trust the courts of law?
How much of the time can you trust the supervisory electoral commission?
How much of the time can you trust the Botswana broadcasting corporation?
How much of the time can you trust govt. press or newspapers?
How much of the time can you trust independent press or newspapers?
Preference for democratic VS non-democratic govt
Have you heard about govt's Economic Structural Adjustment Programme?
Economic structural adjustment programme's effect on your life?
ESAP has helped VS it has hurt most people
Besides being citizen of Botswana, which group do you feel you belong to?
Feel proud to be part of this group
Want children to think of themselves as part of group
People belonging to this group are the best
Stronger ties to group than to other Batswana
It makes you proud to be called a Batswana
Children should think of themselves as Batswana
Regardless of group you belong to, if you are Batswana then should be treated equally
Desirable to create a united Botswana out of all the groups?
How are your group's economic conditions in comparison to other groups?
Identity treated fairly
Is govt more or less interested in what your group has to say in comparison to other groups?
Govt represents interests of all Batswana or just one group only?
Which group's interest is mostly represented by govt.?
Which is true for you with regards to 1999 national elections?
Address problems facing the community with others?
Attend election rally?
Work for political candidate or party?
Write a letter to newspaper?
Claimed govt benefits to which you are not entitled to?
Avoid paying development levy or property taxes?
Avoid paying income taxes?
Get unpaid for services?
Attend a demonstration or protest march
Boycott rates, services and taxes?
Partake in sit-ins, disruption of govt meetings
Use force or violent methods?
Shutting down of newspapers,radio or tv stations?
What if anything would you do about closing of newspapers, radio, and tv stations?
How do you feel about dismissed judges who ruled against the govt?
What would you do about dismissed judges who ruled against the govt?
How do you feel about banned political parties?
What would you do about banned political parties?
How do you feel about the suspension of parliament and cancellation of elections?
What would you do about the suspension of parliament and cancellation of elections?
It willl take govt years to deal with problems VS ought to deal with it now.
Democratic society and majority rule?
Democratic society and freedom to criticise the govt?
Democratic society and regular elections?
Democratic society and at least 2 parties competing?
Democratic society and basic necessities?
Democratic society and jobs for everyone?
Democratic society and equal education?
Democratic society and small income gap between rich and poor?
Need a strong leader VS Democracy is always best?
The way Botswana is governed?
How satisfied are you with democracy in Botswana?
Most important changes about way country is governed?
Are you close to any political party?
Which party are you close to?
How close do you feel to this party?
How old were you on your last birthday?
What is your home language?
What is the highest grade,std,form completed?
Is your job part-time or full-time or are you looking for work?
Over the last 12 months have you been without a cash job 1 month or more?
For how many months were you unemployed?
Do you do regular work without a cash pay?
What is your present or last occupation?
Type of occupation?
Do you know of a close friend or relative who died of AIDS?
Surburb?
Town/city?
District/ province?
Country:
Language interview was conducted in?
Respondent's gender?
Respondent's race?
Did respondent have missing limbs?
Was respondent blind, or nearly blind?
Did respondent cough repeatedly during the interview?
What type of shelter does respondent live in?
Did the household have windows?
Did household have glass in windows?
What was roof made of?
Other adults present listening during the interview?
Did respondent consult others for information to answer questions?
Did anyone influence respondent's answers?
What proportion of questions did respondent struggle to answer?
Where was interview conducted?
What was respondent's attitude?
What was respondent's attitude during interview?
Did your presence arouse interest from neighbours?
Did your presence arouse suspicion from neighbours?
Did your presence arouse fear from neighbours?
Were you approached by community/ party representatives?
Did you feel threatened during interview?
Were physically threatened during interview?
Anything else significant happen during interview?
Interviewer number?
Interviewer age?
Do you come from rural or urban area?
Interviewer's home language?
Interviewer's gender?
Interviewer's race?
Interviewer's highest level of education?
Is there a post-office in primary sampling unit?
Is there a school in the primary sampling unit?
Is there a police station in the primary sampling unit?
Is there a regular bus/taxi service in the primary sampling unit?
Is there an electricity grid accessible to most houses?
Is there a piped water system accessible to most houses?
Is there a sewage system accessible to most houses?
Is there a railway station?
Is there a health clinic?
Are there recreational facilities?
Are there any places of worship such as churches, mosques?
Are there any townhalls or community buildings that can be used for meetings?
Is there a petrol station?
Is there a bottle store?
Is there a supermarket (food/ clothing)?
Are there cafes, corner shops?
Are there any market stalls (selling food/ clothing)?
Were there any police or police vehicles at PSU or EA?
Were there any soldiers or army vehicles?
Was there any pavement along roads?
Any household yards with crops/vegetables been grown?
Any household yards/fields containing livestock?
Any household yards/fields with trees higher than one storey?
How many formal houses in PSU?
Type of area in which interview was conducted in?
Was the PSU clearly sign-posted the last 10km of journey?
Any stop lights/give way signs along last 10km of journey?
Any traffic lights or robots along last 10km of journey?
Were they in working order?
Did you see a water-filled river in last 1km of journey?
Did you see a water-filled dam or lake in last 1km of journey?
How much of the last 10km was graded sand/dirt roads?
How much of the last 10km was ungraded dirt roads?
How much of the last 10km journey was spent off road?