Afrobarometer Survey 2008, Round 4

Botswana, 2008

Reference ID

BWA_2008_AFB-R4_v01_M

Producer(s)

The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)

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Jan 16, 2021

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Q30. Support for democracy (Q30)

Data file: bot_r4_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 275

End: 277

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

30. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT 3: Doesn't matter.	88	7.3%
2	STATEMENT 2: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	58	4.8%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy preferable.	1027	85.6%
9	Don't know	27	2.3%
998	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.

Interviewer instructions

Read the question in the language of the interview, but always read “democracy” in English. Translate “democracy” into local language only if respondent does not understand English term.

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