Afrobarometer Survey 2021-2023
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Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso...and 36 more, 2021 - 2023
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Reference ID
AFR_2021-2023_AFB-MR9_v01_M
Producer(s)
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)
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Jul 28, 2025
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- afr39-2021-2023-v1
q45pt1. most important problems - 1st response (q45pt1)
Data file: afr39-2021-2023-v1
Overview
Valid:
53444
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
477
End:
480
Width:
4
Range:
-1 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | nothing/ no problems | 197 |
0.4%
|
| 1 | management of the economy | 7863 |
14.7%
|
| 2 | wages, incomes and salaries | 965 |
1.8%
|
| 3 | unemployment | 7209 |
13.5%
|
| 4 | poverty/destitution | 2332 |
4.4%
|
| 5 | rates and taxes | 334 |
0.6%
|
| 6 | loans / credit | 176 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | farming/agriculture | 961 |
1.8%
|
| 8 | food shortage/famine | 3278 |
6.1%
|
| 9 | drought | 252 |
0.5%
|
| 10 | land | 150 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | transportation | 357 |
0.7%
|
| 12 | communications | 84 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | infrastructure / roads | 3948 |
7.4%
|
| 14 | education | 2619 |
4.9%
|
| 15 | housing | 322 |
0.6%
|
| 16 | electricity | 1772 |
3.3%
|
| 17 | water supply | 4857 |
9.1%
|
| 18 | orphans/street children/homeless children | 65 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | services (other) | 507 |
0.9%
|
| 20 | health | 3463 |
6.5%
|
| 21 | aids | 7 |
0%
|
| 22 | sickness / disease | 72 |
0.1%
|
| 23 | crime and security | 4318 |
8.1%
|
| 24 | corruption | 2728 |
5.1%
|
| 25 | political violence | 104 |
0.2%
|
| 26 | political instability/political divisions/ ethnic tensions | 509 |
1%
|
| 27 | discrimination/ inequality | 248 |
0.5%
|
| 28 | gender issues / women’s rights | 161 |
0.3%
|
| 29 | democracy/political rights | 653 |
1.2%
|
| 30 | war (international) | 6 |
0%
|
| 31 | civil war | 509 |
1%
|
| 32 | agricultural marketing | 385 |
0.7%
|
| 33 | climate change | 77 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | covid-19 | 186 |
0.3%
|
| 180 | internally displaced | 10 |
0%
|
| 1500 | pollution | 15 |
0%
|
| 1680 | drug abuse | 187 |
0.3%
|
| 9995 | other responses | 281 |
0.5%
|
| 9998 | refused | 907 |
1.7%
|
| 9999 | don’t know | 370 |
0.7%
|
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.