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Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011
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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)
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Q57. Essential characteristics of democracy: legislature, government, people etc. (Q57)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

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Valid: 2399
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
57. Let me ask you again about the most essential characteristics of democracy. If you have to choose only one of the things that I am going to read, which one would you choose as the most essential characteristic of democracy?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 The legislature closely monitors the actions of the Presiden 468
19.5%
2 Government provides basic necessities, like food, clothing a 683
28.5%
3 People are free to form organizations to influence governmen 642
26.8%
4 Public services, such as roads, water or sewerage, work well 322
13.4%
8 None of these 206
8.6%
9 Don’t know / Haven't heard enough 78
3.3%
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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