World Values Survey 2010-2014, Wave 6
Argentina, Armenia, Australia...and 56 more, 2010 - 2014
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Reference ID
WLD_2010-2014_WVS-W6_v01_M
Producer(s)
Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin, B. Puranen
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- WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912
Democracy: People obey their rulers (V138)
Data file: WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912
Overview
Valid:
84888
Invalid:
4677
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
10
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
324
End:
325
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Many things are desirable, but not all of them are essential characteristics of democracy. Please tell me for each of the following things how essential you think it is as a characteristic of democracy. Use this scale where 1 means “not at all an essential characteristic of democracy” and 10 means it definitely is “an essential characteristic of democracy”
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not an essential characteristic of democracy | 10885 |
12.8%
|
| 2 | 2 | 4066 |
4.8%
|
| 3 | 3 | 5124 |
6%
|
| 4 | 4 | 5036 |
5.9%
|
| 5 | 5 | 11916 |
14%
|
| 6 | 6 | 7976 |
9.4%
|
| 7 | 7 | 8324 |
9.8%
|
| 8 | 8 | 9396 |
11.1%
|
| 9 | 9 | 7149 |
8.4%
|
| 10 | An essential characteristic of democracy | 15016 |
17.7%
|
| -5 | DE,SE:Inapplicable ; RU:Inappropriate response; HT: Dropped | 82 | |
| -4 | Not asked in survey | 0 | |
| -3 | Not applicable | 0 | |
| -2 | No answer | 1000 | |
| -1 | Don't know | 3595 |
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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