The study will develop and test appropriate questions for measuring values (individual and collective) in the RBN. These values indicators will become part of the future annual Bafokeng Welfare and Impact Monitoring Survey. Values constitute an important aspect of Bafokeng identity and they are therefore key to one of the topline RBN strategic goals, namely protecting and promoting RBN identity and integrity.  

Project Aims

Develop and test ways of measuring values that are important to the Bafokeng community. This will include a qualitative process of open focus group discussions, followed by an analysis of the focus group results to distil key values and express these as quantifiable questions. Finally, a piloting process will test the validity of the quantifiable questions on a small sample of households.

While this project will provide important stand-alone results, its findings will also provide very important inputs to next year’s Bafokeng Welfare and Impact Monitoring Index. While much of the Index will be based on PULA-test questions (such as the socio-economic data), this will be the first time that values data is collected. The questions for collecting this data accurately therefore first have to be developed and tested to ensure they are appropriate to our local conditions. 

In scope:

• Facilitation of focus group discussions;
• Analysis of focus group results; and
• Pilot process to test the validity of the quantifiable questions on a small sample of household.

The project will be carried out by Social Surveys, an experienced social research company, and is due for completion by the End of January 2015.

Scope change:

This project (2014 budget) was intended to link with the Community Values Action Research Project by carrying out a pilot study for it. In March 2015, the scope was changed so that the exploratory qualitative research on RBN community values was completed within the pilot project, but the small quantitative survey originally planned for the pilot would be integrated into the follow-up Community Value Action Research project to enable a larger sample to be covered.