Afrobarometer Survey 2008, Round 4

South Africa, 2008

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ZAF_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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Q30. Support for democracy (Q30)

Data file: saf_r4_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 303

End: 305

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.	279	11.6%
2	STATEMENT 2: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	427	17.8%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy preferable.	1605	66.9%
9	Don't know	89	3.7%
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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