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Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017

South Africa, 2017
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Reference ID
zaf-etcp-cdpd-2017-v1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25828/hzzx-k808
Producer(s)
Shaun Riley
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Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products
Metadata
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Jul 24, 2019
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • access_policy
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Citation

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    zaf-etcp-cdpd-2017-v1
    Title
    Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017
    Abbreviation or Acronym
    CDPD 2017
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type
    Price Survey [hh/prc]
    Other identifiers
    Type Identifier
    doi https://doi.org/10.25828/hzzx-k808
    Abstract
    The full legalization of cannabis is currently being deliberated in South Africa. The aim of this survey was to better understand how the market operates by investigating how cannabis consumers respond to price changes and the factors associated with the price that consumers pay
    Kind of Data
    Sample survey data
    Unit of Analysis
    Individuals

    Version

    Version Description
    v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
    Version Date
    2017

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey collected data on demographic characteristics of respondents and respondents' incomes. Cannabis data included frequency of use, most recent cannabis transactions (amount purchased, price of purchase, and cannabis quality)

    Keywords
    cannabis marijuana prices

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    This survey has no geographic representivity

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Shaun Riley University of Cape Town
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation Role
    Economics of Tobacco Control Project ETCP funder

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2017 2017
    Data Collection Mode
    • Internet [int]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Shaun Riley University of Cape Town
    Supervision
    Ethics approval for data collection was received by the University of Cape Town's Ethics in Research Committee on the 10th of July 2017.
    Data Collection Notes
    Respondents were recruited primarily through social media, and through contacts with pro-cannabis organizations. Twitter and Facebook pages were created to inform potential respondents of the research. The 20-page questionnaire was administered online to respondents on a website called ganjanomics. Periodic 'posts' and 'tweets' were sent out as reminders during data collection.

    access_policy

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org
    Access conditions
    Public use files, available to all
    Citation requirements
    Riley, Shaun. Cannabis Demand and Price Data 2017 [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: Economics of Tobacco Control Project, UCT [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/hzzx-k808

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production
    2020-05-12

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Version 2

    Citation

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