Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Malawi, 2018
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Reference ID
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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Q30. Choose leaders through elections vs. other methods (Q30)
Data file: mlw_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
281
End:
282
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
30. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: We should choose our leaders in this country through regular, open and honest elections.
Statement 2: Since elections sometimes produce bad results, we should adopt other methods for choosing this country’s leaders.
Statement 1: We should choose our leaders in this country through regular, open and honest elections.
Statement 2: Since elections sometimes produce bad results, we should adopt other methods for choosing this country’s leaders.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 540 |
45%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 143 |
11.9%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 98 |
8.2%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 396 |
33%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 14 |
1.2%
|
| 8 | Refused | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 8 |
0.7%
|
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.