Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Namibia, 2019
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Reference ID
NAM_2019_AFB-R8_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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Q33. Media checks government vs. avoid negative reporting (Q33)
Data file: nam_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
298
End:
299
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: The news media should constantly
investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like government mistakes and corruption, only harms the country.
Statement 1: The news media should constantly
investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like government mistakes and corruption, only harms the country.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 457 |
38.1%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 354 |
29.5%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 177 |
14.8%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 178 |
14.8%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 10 |
0.8%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 24 |
2%
|
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.