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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Q58. Main reason for not reporting corruption (Q58)
Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12
Overview
Valid:
53935
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
-1
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
995
End:
998
Width:
4
Range:
-1 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
58. Some people say that many incidents of corruption are never reported. Based on your experience, what do you think is the main reason why many people do not report corruption when it occurs?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 21 |
0%
|
| 0 | Most people do report incidents of corruption | 1866 |
3.5%
|
| 1 | People don't have enough time to report it | 1754 |
3.3%
|
| 2 | People don't know where to report it | 3737 |
6.9%
|
| 3 | People don't know how to report it | 3362 |
6.2%
|
| 4 | Nothing will be done / It wouldn't make a difference | 8187 |
15.2%
|
| 5 | It's too expensive to report | 1213 |
2.2%
|
| 6 | Corruption is normal / Everyone does it | 3786 |
7%
|
| 7 | People are afraid of the consequences | 17707 |
32.8%
|
| 8 | The officials where they would report to are also corrupt | 3581 |
6.6%
|
| 9 | It's government's money, so it's not our problem | 264 |
0.5%
|
| 10 | They would implicate themselves as bribe-givers | 1844 |
3.4%
|
| 11 | Corruption is too difficult to prove | 1820 |
3.4%
|
| 420 | Afraid to go to an Administrative office | 54 |
0.1%
|
| 421 | People refuse to make the effort to expose corruption | 11 |
0%
|
| 422 | The rich are still favoured | 16 |
0%
|
| 423 | Maintain social bonds | 41 |
0.1%
|
| 9995 | Other | 927 |
1.7%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 7 |
0%
|
| 9999 | Don't know | 3737 |
6.9%
|
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.