Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1

Malawi, 1999

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MWI_1999_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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Preference for democratic VS non-democratic govt (Q79)

Data file: mlw_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1208

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 800

End: 803

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

79. With which of these statements are you most in agreement? A, B, or C?
A. Democracy is preferable to any other form of government.
B. In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable to a democratic government.
C. For someone like me, a democratic or non-democratic regime makes no difference.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Democracy always preferable	791	65.5%
2	Non-democratic govt can be preferable	261	21.6%
3	Makes no difference	130	10.8%
4	Don't know	26	2.2%
98	Refused	0	0%
99	Missing data	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.

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