TABLE 1.

Selected Sociodemographic Characteristics, Perceptions, and Well-Being Measures of Survey Respondents (N = 1522), by Race: The Afrobarometer: Round II Survey of South Africa, 2002

	Total, No.	Black	White	Colored	Asian	Pa
Sociodemographic Characteristics
Race, %		67.02	13.21	15.05	4.73
Age, y, mean		52	55	55	39
Gender, %						.642
Men	776	52.3	49.8	50.4	51.7
Women	746	47.7	50.2	49.6	48.3
Education, %						.004
None/informal	90	7.4	0.5	3.9	7.0
Primary school	334	25.5	2.5	27.5	8.3
Secondary school	1076	66.2	93.5	67.7	83.3
University/postgraduate	20	1.0	3.5	0.9	1.4
Monthly household income, rand, %						<.001
0–100	298	27.7	7.9	14.1	4.9
101–500	156	14.2	1.6	10.8	1.6
501–1400	323	26.8	4.8	33.5	8.2
1401–3000	236	18.6	15.1	16.2	21.3
≥ 3001	293	12.6	70.6	25.4	63.9
Perceptions
Perception of government's handling of health care, %
Bad	664	39.8	67.3	38.5	62.0	<.001
Good	835	60.2	32.7	61.5	38.0
Perception of government's handling of education, %
Bad	567	31.5	57.0	40.1	71.8	<.001
Good	921	68.5	43.0	59.9	28.2
Perception of government's handling of gap between rich and poor, %
Bad	1089	72.6	84.9	80.4	85.5	.001
Good	345	27.4	15.1	19.6	14.5
Measures of Well-Being
How often respondent had no health care during past year, %
Never	1031	59.2	89.1	79.0	93.1	<.001
Sometimes	364	29.8	9.5	17.7	6.9
Many times/always	127	11.0	1.5	5.2	0
How often respondent's ethnic group was treated unfairly during past year, %
Never	353	27.9	22.2	17.5	27.9	.027
Sometimes	616	43.9	50.6	44.2	41.2
Often	226	15.3	16.7	20.3	17.7
Always	185	12.9	10.5	19.0	13.2
Health clinic in PSU/EA
No	550	46.3	29.6	22.1	32.4	<.001
Yes	830	53.7	70.4	77.9	67.7
How often respondent had gone without food during past year, %
Never	884	56.1	87.7	72.4	91.2	<.001
Just once or twice	207	17.7	7.4	12.4	4.4
Several times	169	15.4	3.1	8.3	2.9
Many times	96	8.6	1.9	5.5	1.5
Always	24	2.3	0	1.38	0
How often respondent had gone without water during past year, %						<.001
Never	1147	66.7	96.0	88.7	98.6
Just once or twice	117	10.2	0.5	4.8	1.4
Several times	98	8.9	0.5	2.6	0
Many times	63	5.7	1.0	1.3	0
Always	97	8.5	2.0	2.6	0

Note. PSU/EA = primary sampling unit/enumeration area. Significance was set at α less than or equal to .05.

^aBy the Mantel–Haenszel χ² test.