Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1

Ghana, 1999

Reference ID

GHA_1999_AFB-R1_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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Deal with inherited problems? (Q32)

Data file: gha_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1997

Invalid: 7

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 123

End: 123

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

32.
A. It will take many years for our elected government to deal with the problems it inherited.
B. If democracy can’t produce results soon, we should try another form of government.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A, strongly	726	36.4%
2	A, somewhat	756	37.9%
3	B, somewhat	274	13.7%
4	B, strongly	241	12.1%
Sysmiss		7

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

The enumerator introduced the pair of statements by saying, “I am now going to give you several pairs of statements. Please tell me which one you agree with most. Choose Statement A or Statement B.” Then, the enumerator probed, “Do you agree strongly or just somewhat?”

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