National Reading Survey 2023 Technical Report

This report describes the methodology of the 2023 South African National Reading Survey, a nationally representative survey of the adult population aged 16+ which describes the reading practices, preferences and contexts of adults, both in terms of reading for themselves and reading with children in their household. The technical report provides information about the data collection process, the structure of the open source questionnaire and dataset, and the key data cleaning and data analysis processes followed to arrive at the results reported in the survey findings reports.