Home / Central Data Catalog / ZAF_1996_WVS-W3_V01_M / variable [F2]
central

World Values Survey 1996, Wave 3

South Africa, 1996
Get Microdata
Reference ID
ZAF_1996_WVS-W3_v01_M
Producer(s)
Dr. Johann Mouton, Anneke Greyling, Dr. Robert B. Mattes, Mari Harris
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 16, 2021
Last modified
Jan 16, 2021
Page views
4874
Downloads
87

Government responsibility: To maintain order in society vs respect freedom of the individual (V159)

Data file: WV3_Data_South_Africa_1996_Spss_v20180912

Overview

Valid: 2855
Invalid: 80
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 3
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 373
End: 374
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
V159. If you had to choose, which would you say is the most important responsibility of government:
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Maintain order in society 2041
71.5%
2 Respect freedom of the individual 810
28.4%
3 Other answer 4
0.1%
-4 Not asked 0
-2 NA 1
-1 DK 79
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.
Back to Catalog