Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Ghana, 2018
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Reference ID
GHA_2018_AFB-R7_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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Q22C_GHA. Main reason for the choice of presidential candidate (Q22C_GHA)
Data file: gha_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
247
End:
248
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
If respondent selects a code that shows he or she voted in the presidential election in Q22C-GHA, ask
Literal question
Which of these is the major reason for the choice of presidential candidate you made at the polls?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The candidate I voted for can do a better job managing the affairs of the country | 676 |
28.2%
|
| 2 | The campaign promises, policies and programs of the candidate I voted are more credible | 675 |
28.1%
|
| 3 | The candidate I voted for was definitely going to win the elections and didn’t want to waste my vote. | 34 |
1.4%
|
| 4 | I voted for this candidate because we share the same ethnicity. | 29 |
1.2%
|
| 5 | I voted for this candidate because we belong to the same political party. | 162 |
6.8%
|
| 95 | Other | 54 |
2.3%
|
| 97 | Not applicable | 762 |
31.8%
|
| 98 | Refused to Answer | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 6 |
0.3%
|
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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