Afrobarometer Survey 2007, Round 3.5

Nigeria, 2007

Reference ID

NGA_2007_AFB-R3.5_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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Q40e. Local council:elected councilors represent the views of ordinary people (Q40E)

Data file: nig_r3.5_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2410

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 478

End: 480

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

40. Let us turn to the way in which your local council is actually governed. How well or badly do you think it is practicing the following procedures? Or haven’t you heard enough to have an opinion?
- Ensuring that elected councilors represent the views of ordinary people

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Very badly	651	27%
2	Fairly badly	879	36.5%
3	Fairly well	594	24.6%
4	Very well	111	4.6%
9	Don't know/Haven't heard enough	175	7.3%
998	Refused	0	0%

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.

Interviewer instructions

Interviewer: Read out options and probe for strength of opinion

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