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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Q20. Support for democracy (Q20)

Data file: nig_r3.5_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2410

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 217

End: 219

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

20. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
STATEMENT A: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.
STATEMENT B: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.
STATEMENT C: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT C: Doesn't matter.	303	12.6%
2	STATEMENT B: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	390	16.2%
3	STATEMENT A: Democracy preferable.	1647	68.3%
9	Don't know	70	2.9%
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

Read out statements. Only one option to be chosen. Read the question in the language of the interview, but always read “democracy” in English. Translate “democracy” into local language only if respondent does not understand English term

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