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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Q31. Elected pursue policies they prefer vs. compromise with others (Q31)
Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
462
End:
463
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: Whichever party or group wins elections should be able to pursue the policies they prefer, without needing to compromise with others.
Statement 2: In a democracy, it is important to make compromises between the preferences and needs of different groups.
Statement 1: Whichever party or group wins elections should be able to pursue the policies they prefer, without needing to compromise with others.
Statement 2: In a democracy, it is important to make compromises between the preferences and needs of different groups.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 116 |
9.7%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 101 |
8.4%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 241 |
20.1%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 723 |
60.3%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 10 |
0.8%
|
| 8 | Refused | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 8 |
0.7%
|
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.