Afrobarometer Survey 2020, Round 8

Ethiopia, 2019 - 2020

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ETH_2020_AFB-R8_v01_M

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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

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Q33. Media checks government vs avoid negative reporting (Q33)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 311

End: 312

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2. [Interviewer: Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?]
33. Statement 1: The news media should constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like government mistakes and corruption, only harms the country.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	1092	45.9%
2	Agree with 1	766	32.2%
3	Agree with 2	303	12.7%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	181	7.6%
5	Agree with neither	9	0.4%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	27	1.1%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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