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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Q74. Government should monitor private communication vs right to privacy (Q74)
Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1072
End:
1073
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
74. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Government should be able to monitor private communications, for example on mobile phones, to make sure that people are not plotting violence.
Statement 2: People should have the right to communicate in private without a government agency reading or listening to what they are saying.
Statement 1: Government should be able to monitor private communications, for example on mobile phones, to make sure that people are not plotting violence.
Statement 2: People should have the right to communicate in private without a government agency reading or listening to what they are saying.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1 | 281 |
23.4%
|
| 2 | Agree with Statement 1 | 127 |
10.6%
|
| 3 | Agree with Statement 2 | 183 |
15.3%
|
| 4 | Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2 | 571 |
47.6%
|
| 5 | Agree with Neither | 22 |
1.8%
|
| 8 | Refused to answer | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 13 |
1.1%
|
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.