South African Public Protector Investigate Reports Data

<p>Please read the Code Book.</p> <p>Author: Tomohiro Hosoi</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Aim of the Data Set</strong></p> <p>The South African Public Protector Investigate Reports Data is the original data constructed by Tomohiro Hosoi (&ldquo;the author&rdquo;), who aims to investigate the role of the Public Protector in South Africa. His research article titled &ldquo;South African Public Protector: People&rsquo;s Watchdog or Politicians&rsquo; Lapdog?&rdquo; which is published in <em>African Study Monographs </em>2023, uses this data set.</p> <p>The author aims to share the dataset for researchers to more sophisticated research in the future. The author provides the data in both excel and CSV format.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Source of the Data</strong></p> <p>The author downloaded all of the Investigation Reports on the Office of Public Protector&rsquo;s Home Page on 15 April 2022. (<a href="http://www.publicprotector.org/?q=content/investigation-reports-categories">http://www.publicprotector.org/?q=content/investigation-reports-categories</a>). The data includes 388 reports from 2008 to 2022. The author reads all of the reports and codes the information containing them.</p>