Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Botswana, 2019

Reference ID

BWA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

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Oct 14, 2021

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Q21. Support for democracy (Q21)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 442

End: 443

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

21. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
Statement 1: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.
Statement 2: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.
Statement 3: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT 3: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.	156	13%
2	STATEMENT 2: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.	162	13.5%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.	859	71.6%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	23	1.9%

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 out statements. 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 the term in the official language.

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