Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Botswana, 2019
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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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Q28. Experts needed for important decisions vs elected know best (Q28)
Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
456
End:
457
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Experts with specialized education or skills are needed to help make the most important decisions for our country.
Statement 2: The people and their elected representatives know what is best; they do not need the advice of experts to run the country.
Statement 1: Experts with specialized education or skills are needed to help make the most important decisions for our country.
Statement 2: The people and their elected representatives know what is best; they do not need the advice of experts to run the country.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 789 |
65.8%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 234 |
19.5%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 57 |
4.8%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 98 |
8.2%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 8 |
0.7%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 14 |
1.2%
|
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.