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Mark-en-meningsopnames (Markinor) polls for Rapport

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Kind household or labour survey microdata
Producer Mark-en-meningsopnames / Rapport
Coverage 1976-1983
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Charney (1984) Rapport Poll 3/82 (Nov. 1982) and Rapport 05.06.83 poll reports; Charney's 1981 election analysis 1977-1983 Table 2 traces partisan support among whites across the 1977 and 1981 elections and 1982-83 polls to show NP decline after the split.
Charney (1984) Rapport Poll, April 1982 (Mark-en-meningsopnames), income of NP supporters April 1982 Shows the NP's base is now mostly middle-class by income, with only 38% under R13,000.
Charney (1984) Rapport Poll, July 1982 (party choice by denomination and church attendance) July 1982 Table 4 shows that conservative-church Afrikaners, and Transvaal NGK members, lean towards the far right.
Charney (1984) Rapport Poll, Nov. 1982 (HNP supporters' income) November 1982 Supports the claim that the HNP reverted to a poor-white protest party.
Frankel (1979) Mark en Meningsopnames, Meningspeiling vir Rapport (1976) opinion survey 1976 Survey data cited to show significant numbers of whites favour altering the pass system.