Afrobarometer Survey 2014-2015, Merged Round 6 Data (36 Countries)

Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Algeria, Egypt, Arab Rep., Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, K, 2014 - 2015

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AFR_2016_AFB-MR6_v01_M

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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD, Ghana), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR, South Africa), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP, Benin), Institute for Development Studies (IDS, Kenya), Michigan State University (MSU, United States),

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Q45a. How often news media abuses its freedom (Q45A)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 879

End: 880

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

45. In your opinion, how often, in this country:
A. Does the news media abuse its freedoms by printing or saying things it knows are not true?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	16	0%
0	Never	10299	19.1%
1	Rarely	17484	32.4%
2	Often	13846	25.7%
3	Always	5243	9.7%
9	Donâ€™t know	7047	13.1%
98	Refused	0	0%

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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