Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Malawi, 2018
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MWI_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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Q22. Voting in the most recent national election (Q22)
Data file: mlw_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
98
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
241
End:
242
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
22. Understanding that some people were unable to vote in the most recent national election in 2014, which of the following statements is true for you?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | You were not registered to vote | 28 |
2.3%
|
| 1 | You voted in the elections | 946 |
78.8%
|
| 2 | You decided not to vote | 41 |
3.4%
|
| 3 | You could not find the polling station | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 4 | You were prevented from voting | 9 |
0.8%
|
| 5 | You did not have time to vote | 10 |
0.8%
|
| 6 | You did not vote because your name not in the register | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Did not vote for some other reason | 81 |
6.8%
|
| 8 | You were too young to vote | 69 |
5.8%
|
| 9 | Don’t Know / Can’t remember | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 98 | Refused | 10 |
0.8%
|
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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