Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7

Ghana, 2018

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GHA_2018_AFB-R7_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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Q80c_GHA. Most appropriate form of punishment for corrupt individuals (Q80C_GHA)

Data file: gha_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1062

End: 1062

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Q80C-GHA. There have been different suggestions regarding how best to deal with people who engage in corrupt practices whilst in public office. In your opinion, which of the following would be the most appropriate form of punishment for such individuals?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Government just names and shames that official as a corrupt person	51	2.1%
2	Government retrieves stolen funds, but does not prosecutethe corrupt official	551	23%
3	Government prosecutes and jails the corrupt official without retrieving stolen funds	216	9%
4	Government prosecutes and jails the corrupt official, retrieves and uses stolen funds for a public facility	1528	63.7%
8	Refused to Answer	8	0.3%
9	Don’t know	46	1.9%

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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