Afrobarometer Survey 2010, Round 4.5
Zimbabwe, 2010
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Reference ID
ZWE_2010_AFB-R4.5_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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Q28. Media checks government vs. avoid negative reporting (Q28)
Data file: zim_r4-5_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1192
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Mean:
1.92365771812081
Standard deviation:
1.53330034617959
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
252
End:
254
Width:
3
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
28. 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 corruption and the mistakes made by the government.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like corruption, only harms the country.
Statement 1: The news media should constantly investigate and report on corruption and the mistakes made by the government.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like corruption, only harms the country.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 656 |
55%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 294 |
24.7%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 99 |
8.3%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 79 |
6.6%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 35 |
2.9%
|
| 9 | Don't Know | 29 |
2.4%
|
| 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.