Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Botswana, 2019

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BWA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M

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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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Q56. News media free of censorship by the government (Q56)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 912

End: 913

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

56. In your opinion, how free is the news media in this country to report and comment on the news without censorship or interference by the government?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Not at all free	92	7.7%
1	Not very free	204	17%
2	Somewhat free	255	21.3%
3	Completely free	598	49.8%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don’t know	51	4.3%

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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