Because the Afrobarometer is funded from public resources, its data are a public good. All data are released via this website and other outlets, along with relevant codebooks. But, to allow initial in-house analysis and publication, data will not be published in the two-year period following the first release of any survey's results.

Afrobarometer data are protected by copyright. Authors of any published work based on Afrobarometer data or papers are required to acknowledge the source including, where applicable, citations to data sets posted on this website. In addition, we request users to send copies of any publications, papers, or reports that employ Afrobarometer data to Afrobarometer, Department of Political Science, 303 South Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.

To access Afrobarometer survey data that are now available to the public, click here. These are also available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Note that for some surveys data is weighted to correct for either deliberate (e.g., to provide an adequate sample of specific sub-groups for analytical purposes) or inadvertent over- or under-sampling of particular sample strata. In these cases, a weighting variable is included as the last variable in the data set, with details described in the codebook. These weighting factors should be used when calculating all national-level statistics.