Afrobarometer Survey 2003, Round 2

Nigeria, 2003

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NGA_2003_AFB-R2_v01_M

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

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Q18 Civil Servants Keep Jobs vs. Lay offs to reduce costs (q18)

Data file: nig_r2_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2428

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 132

End: 132

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

18. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement A or Statement B.
A: All civil servants should keep their jobs, even if paying their salaries is costly to the country.
B: The government cannot afford so many public employees and should lay some of them off.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Agree very strongly with A	1014	41.8%
2	Agree with A	926	38.1%
3	Agree with B	257	10.6%
4	*Agree very strongly with B	142	5.8%
5	Agree with neither	57	2.3%
9	Don't Know	32	1.3%

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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