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Afrobarometer Survey 2000, Round 1

Lesotho, 2000
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LSO_2000_AFB-R1_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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Afrobarometer round 1 survey data.

Cases: 1177
Variables: 331

Variables

CASE_NUM
case number
V12
Date
Q1
Satisfaction with economic conditions
Q2
Evaluations of economic conditions
Q3
Economic expectations
Q4
Personal economic conditions compared to others
Q6A
How do you currently obtain food
Q6B
How do you currently obtain food?
Q6C
How do you currently obtain food?
Q6D
How do you currently obtain food?
Q7A
What other methods used to obtain food?
Q7B
What other methods used to obtain food?
Q7C
What other methods used to obtain food?
Q8A
What safety measures do you have for your home?
Q8B
What safety measures do you have for your home?
Q8C
What safety measures do you have for your home?
Q8D
What safety measures do you have for your home?
Q9A
What other methods would you use to protect your home?
Q9B
What other methods would you use to protect your home?
Q9C
What other methods would you use to protect your home?
Q10A
How do you currently obtain health care?
Q10B
How do you currently obtain health care?
Q10C
How do you currently obtain health care?
Q10D
How do you currently obtain health care?
Q11A
What other methods would you use to obtain health care?
Q11B
What other methods would you use to obtain health care?
Q11C
What other methods would you use to obtain health care?
Q12A
How do you normally obtain cash income?
Q12B
How do you normally obtain cash income?
Q12C
How do you normally obtain cash income?
Q12D
How do you normally obtain cash income?
Q13A
What other methods would you use to obtain cash?
Q13B
What other methods would you use to obtain cash?
Q13C
What other methods would you use to obtain cash?
Q14
Is there a nearby school which your kids could attend?
Q15
Do you have an electricity hook-up into home?
Q16
Do you have piped water into home?
Q17A
How often have you gone without enough food to eat?
Q17B
How often have you felt unsafe from crime in your home?
Q17C
How often have you gone without necessary medical treatment?
Q17D
How often have you gone without a cash income?
Q17E
How often have you gone without enough clean water to drink?
Q17F
How often have you gone without shelter?
Q17G
How often you gone without electricity in your home?
Q17H
How often had insufficient fuel to heat your home and cook?
Q18A
Physical health reduce amount of work?
Q18B
How often worried, anxious, felt tired?
Q19A
How often do you attend church group meetings?
Q19B
Attend self-help association?
Q19C
Attend group concerned with local matters?
Q19D
Attend local commercial organisation?
Q19E
Attends group that looks after the community?
Q19F
Attend a trade union?
Q20
People more responsible for well-being VS govt. responsibilt
Q21
Free to earn VS limited income
Q22
Start own business VS govt. employment.
Q23
New business risky VS invest to start business
Q24A
Who should take responsibilty for schools and clinics?
Q24B
Responsibility for creating jobs?
Q24C
Responsibility for building houses?
Q24D
Responsibility for reducing crime?
Q24E
Responsibility for buying or selling crops and livestock?
Q24F
Responsibility to help farmers borrow money?
Q25
Variety of goods at high prices VS shortages at low prices?
Q26
Free health care, low stds VS pay for better health care
Q27
Keep govt employees VS retrench govt employees
Q28
Govt owns factories VS privatization
Q29A
What does democracy mean?
Q29B
What does democracy mean?
Q29C
What does democracy mean?
Q30
Who is the Prime Minister?
Q31
Who is the minister of finance?
Q32
Who is your member of the district development committee?
Q33
Who is your representative on the community or urban council?
Q34
Have you contacted govt official or political party official
Q35A
What type of official did you contact?
Q35B
What type of official did you contact?
Q35C
What type of official did you contact?
Q35D
What type of official did you contact?
Q35E
What type of official did you contact?
Q35F
What type of officail did you contact?
Q36A
Paid a govt. official to get a job?
Q36B
Paid govt. official to get a maintenance payment, loan or pe
Q36C
Paid govt. official to get water or electricity?
Q36D
Paid govt. offical to get housing or land?
Q37
Contacted any other influential person?
Q38A
What type of influential person did you contact?
Q38B
Type of influential person contacted
Q38C
Type of influential person contacted
Q38D
Type of influential person contacted
Q38E
Type of influential person contacted
Q38F
Type of influential person contacted
Q39
Do you have a local traditional leader, chief or headman?
Q40
Local chiefs interest in people?
Q41
How much of the time can local chief be trusted?
Q42
How many chiefs or traditional leaders are involved in corruption?
Q43A
How often do you get news from radio?
Q43B
How often do you get news from tv?
Q43C
How often do you get news from newspapers?
Q44
Most people can be trusted Vs you must be careful of people?
Q45
Discuss political matters with friends?
Q46
Do you follow what is happening in govt and public affairs?
Q47A
Feel that you have little or no control over life?
Q47B
Insufficient info about political life and govt. actions?
Q47C
Sometimes political and govt. affairs too complicated to understand
Q47D
Have to be careful what you do and say with regards to politics?
Q48
Way you vote makes a difference VS no difference?
Q49
Who is in power makes a difference VS no difference?
Q50
Freeness and fairness of last national elections?
Q51A
Most important problems to be addressed by govt.
Q51B
Most important problems to be addressed by govt.
Q51C
Most important problems to be addressed by govt?
Q51XA
Rating of previous system govt
Q51XB
Rating of current system of govt
Q51XC
Rating of future system
Q52A
Anyone can freely say what they think?
Q52B
Can join any political organisation they choose?
Q52C
Can live without fear of unjust arrest?
Q52D
Free to choose who to vote for without feeling forced by others?
Q52E
Everybody treated equally and fairly by govt.
Q52F
Safe from crime and violence?
Q52G
Adequate standard of living?
Q52H
Access to basic necessities?
Q52I
Basotho are equal to each other?
Q53
One party to stand for elections and hold office?
Q54
Decisions to be made by council of elders, traditional leade
Q55
Army governs the country?
Q56
President decides everything?
Q57
All decsions made by economic experts?
Q58
Country returned to colonial rule?
Q59
Govt elected by accepted procedures?
Q60
Govt. exercises power in acceptable way?
Q61
Constitution expresses values and aspirations of Basotho
Q62
Govt should have the ultimate decision?
Q63A
How well is govt creating jobs?
Q63B
How well is govt building houses?
Q63C
How well is govt ensuring that prices remain stable?
Q63D
How well does govt reduce crime?
Q63E
How well is govt improving health services?
Q63F
How well does govt address educational needs of all Basotho?
Q63G
How well does govt manage the economy?
Q63H
How well does govt deliver basic services like water?
Q63I
How well does govt ensure that everyone has sufficient land?
Q64
How interested is the Prime Minister in your well-being?
Q65
How much trust the Prime Minister to do what is right?
Q66
President's job performance?
Q67
How many govt officials involved in corruption?
Q68
How intersted is parliament in the well-being of you?
Q69
How much trust parliament to do what is right?
Q70
Parliament's job performance?
Q71
How many members of parliament involved in corruption?
Q72
How many civil servants involved in corruption?
Q73
How interested is your local councillor in your well-being?
Q74
How much trust your local govt?
Q75
Local govt. job performance?
Q76
How many local govt. officials involved in corruption?
Q77A
Comparison of current and past govt effectiveness
Q77B
Comparison of current and past govt interest.
Q77C
Comparison of current and past govt corruption
Q77D
Comparison of current and past govt. trustworthiness
Q78A
How much trust the army?
Q78B
How much trust the police?
Q78C
How much trust the courts of law?
Q78D
How much trust the supervisory electoral commission?
Q78E
How much trust the Lesotho broadcasting corp?
Q78F
How much trust govt press or newspapers?
Q78G
How much trust independent press or newspapers?
Q79
Preference for democratic VS non-democratic govt
Q80
Have you heard about govt's Economic Structural Adjustment Propram?
Q81
Economic structural adjustment programme's effect on your life?
Q82
ESAP has helped VS hurt most people
Q83
Besides being Mosotho, to which group do you feel you belong?
Q84A
Feel proud to be part of this group
Q84B
Want children to think of themselves as part of group
Q84C
People belonging to this group are the best
Q84D
Stronger ties to group than to other Basotho
Q84E
It makes you proud to be called a Mosotho
Q84F
Children should think of themselves as Basotho
Q84G
All Basotho treated as equal citizens?
Q84H
Desirable to create a united Lesotho out of all groups?
Q85
Your group's economic conditions compared to others?
Q86
Identity treated fairly
Q87
Is govt more or less interested in what your group has to say?
Q88
Govt represents interests of all Basotho or just one group
Q89
Which group's interest is mostly represented by govt.?
Q90
Which is true for you with regards to 1998 national election
Q91A
Address problems facing the community with others?
Q91B
Attend election rally?
Q91C
Work for political candidate or party?
Q91D
Write a letter to newspaper?
Q92A
Claimed govt benefits to which you are not entitled?
Q92B
Avoid paying development levy or property taxes?
Q92C
Avoid paying income taxes?
Q92D
Get services without paying?
Q93A
Attend a demostartion or protest march
Q93B
Boycott rates, services and taxes?
Q93C
Partake in sit-ins, disruption of govt meetings
Q93D
Use force or violent methods?
Q94
Spport for shutting down media?
Q95A
Response to shutting down media.
Q95B
Response to shutting down media.
Q95C
Response to shutting down media.
Q95D
Response to shutting down media.
Q96
Support for dismissing judges?
Q97A
Response to dismissing judges.
Q97B
Response to dismissing judges.
Q97C
Response to dismissing judges.
Q97D
Response to dismissing judges.
Q98
Support for banning political parties?
Q99A
Response to banning political parties.
Q99B
Response to banning political parties.
Q99C
Response to banning political parties.
Q99D
Response to banning political parties.
Q100
Support for suspension of parliament and canceling elections?
Q101A
Response to suspension of parliament.
Q101B
Response to suspension of parliament.
Q101C
Response to suspension of parliament.
Q101D
Response to suspension of parliament.
Q102
Patience to deal with problems VS solve now
Q103A
Democratic society and majority rule?
Q103B
Democratic society and freedom to criticise the govt?
Q103C
Democratic society and regular elections?
Q103D
Democratic society and at least 2 parties competing?
Q103E
Democratic society and jbasic necessities?
Q103F
Democratic society and jobs for everyone?
Q103G
Democratic society and equal education?
Q103H
Democratic society and small income gap?
Q104
Need a strong leader VS Democracy is always best?
Q105
Is Lesotho democratic?
Q106
How satisfied are you with democracy in Lesotho?
Q107A
Most important changes about way country is governed?
Q107B
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q107C
Most important changes about way country is governed
Q108
Are you close to any political party?
Q108B
Which party are you close to?
Q109
How close do you feel to this party?
Q110A
How old were you on your last birthday?
Q110B
What is your home language?
Q111
What is the highest grade,std,form completed?
Q112
Is your job part-time or full-time or are you looking for work?
Q113
Over the last 12 months have you been without a cash job?
Q114
For how many months were you unemployed?
Q115
Do you do regular work without cash pay?
Q116
Present occupation
Q117
Type of occupation?
Q118
How often without cash income
Q121
Do you know of a close friend or relative who died of AIDS?
Q122
Village surveyed
Q123A
District
Q123B
Country
Q124
Language interview was conducted in?
Q125
Respondent's gender?
Q126
Responden't race?
Q127
Did respondent have missing limbs?
Q128
Was respondent blind, or nearly blind?
Q129
Did respondent cough repeatedly during the interview?
Q130
What type of shelter does respondent live in?
Q131
Did the household have windows?
Q132
Did household have glass in windows?
Q133
What was roof made of?
Q134
Other adults present listening during the interview?
Q135
Did respondent consult others for information to answer questions?
Q136
Did anyone influence respondent's answers?
Q137
What proportion of questions did respondent struggle to answer?
Q138
Where was interview conducted?
Q139
What was resondent's attitude?
Q140
What was respondent's attitude?
Q141
What was respondent's attitude during interview?
Q142
What was respondent's attitude during interview?
Q143
What was respondent's attitude during interview?
Q144
What was respondent's attitude during interview?
Q145
Did your presence arouse interest from neighbours?
Q146
Did your presence arouse suspicion from neighbours?
Q147
Did your presence arouse fear from neighbours?
Q148
Were you approached by community/ party representatives?
Q149
Did you feel threatened during interview?
Q150
Were physically threatened during interview?
Q151
Anything else significant happen during interview?
Q152
Interviewer number?
Q153
Interviewer age?
Q154
Do you come from rural or urban area?
Q155
Interviewer's home language?
Q156
Interviewer's gender?
Q156A
Interviewer's race?
Q157
Interviewer's highest level of education?
Q158
Is there a post-office in primary sampling unit?
Q159
Is there a school in the primary sampling unit?
Q160
Is there a police station in the primary sampling unit?
Q161
Is there a regular bus/taxi service in the PSU?
Q162
Is there an electricity grid accessible to most houses?
Q163
Is there a piped water system accessible to most houses?
Q164
Is there a sewage system accessible to most houses?
Q165
Is there a railway station?
Q166
Is there a health clinic?
Q167
Are there recreational facilities?
Q168
Are there any places of worship such as churches, mosques?
Q169
Are there any townhalls or community buildings?
Q170
Is there a petrol station?
Q171
Is there a bottle store?
Q172
Is there a supermarket (food/ clothing)?
Total: 331
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