Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Nigeria, 2017
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Reference ID
NGA_2017_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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Q82EPT1_NIG. Best way for government to address armed extremists.1st response (Q82EPT1_NIG)
Data file: nig_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1600
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
884
End:
885
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
In your opinion, what do you think would be the best way for the government to be more effective in addressing the problem of armed extremists in our country? And what would be the second most important reason?
- 1st response
- 1st response
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Nothing | 26 |
1.6%
|
| 1 | The government is already effective in combatting them | 96 |
6%
|
| 2 | Strengthen the military response or military capabilities | 479 |
29.9%
|
| 3 | Working together with traditional leaders to address the issue | 124 |
7.8%
|
| 4 | Working together with religious leaders to address the issue | 105 |
6.6%
|
| 5 | Improve the economy and create more jobs | 394 |
24.6%
|
| 6 | Improve education standards | 70 |
4.4%
|
| 7 | Govern more effectively / provide better government services | 118 |
7.4%
|
| 8 | Treat the communities the extremists come from more fairly | 42 |
2.6%
|
| 9 | Give more power to local governments to make their own decisions | 18 |
1.1%
|
| 10 | Cooperate more with other countries in our region to address the issue | 27 |
1.7%
|
| 11 | Cooperate more with the international community to address the issue | 24 |
1.5%
|
| 12 | Increase resources distributed to states and local communities, especially those from oil resource area | 18 |
1.1%
|
| 13 | Split the country | 21 |
1.3%
|
| 95 | Some other answer | 22 |
1.4%
|
| 98 | Refused to answer | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 12 |
0.8%
|
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.