Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Malawi, 2018
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Reference ID
MWI_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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Q29. Govt gets things done vs. Govt accountable to citizens (Q29)
Data file: mlw_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
279
End:
280
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
29. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: It is more important to have a government that can get things done, even if we have no influence over what it does.
Statement 2: It is more important for citizens to be able to hold government accountable, even if that means it makes decisions more slowly.
Statement 1: It is more important to have a government that can get things done, even if we have no influence over what it does.
Statement 2: It is more important for citizens to be able to hold government accountable, even if that means it makes decisions more slowly.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 278 |
23.2%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 109 |
9.1%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 174 |
14.5%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 618 |
51.5%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 14 |
1.2%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 7 |
0.6%
|
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.