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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Q55e. Difficulty to obtain identity document (Q55E)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 973

End: 974

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Now I would like to talk to you about experiences that some people have in accessing certain essential government services.
55. In the past 12 months have you tried to get an identity document like a birth certificate, driver’s license, passport or voter’s card, or a permit, from government?
E. How easy or difficult was it to obtain the document you needed?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	5	0%
1	Very Easy	5950	11%
2	Easy	9040	16.8%
3	Difficult	6734	12.5%
4	Very Difficult	4243	7.9%
7	No contact	27848	51.6%
9	Don't Know	115	0.2%
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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