Jamy Felton
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Jamy is the head of data management at Afrobarometer
Biography
Jamy Felton is Head of Data Management for Afrobarometer. She previously served as the organization’s data quality officer.
Jamy has a master’s degree in politics from the University of Cape Town and bachelor’s degrees in international studies and political science from Stellenbosch University.
As a research assistant, she worked on the Cape Area Survey titled “Changing Political Culture Through Education: Democratic Citizenship and the School Curriculum in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Prior to that, she was an intern and consultant on the Conflicts of Interest project at the Institute for Security Studies.
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AD467: South Africans support government’s COVID-19 response but are critical of corruption and skeptical of vaccines
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AD334: Prerequisite for progress: Accessible, reliable power still in short supply across Africa
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AD248: Increasingly non-partisan, South Africans willing to trade elections for security, housing, jobs
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AD210: Climate change, government management pose challenges in agriculture-dependent Malawi
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AD89: As South Africa’s local elections approach, public confidence underpins system in turmoil