Afrobarometer Survey 2020, Round 8

Ethiopia, 2019 - 2020

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ETH_2020_AFB-R8_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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Q32. Popular govt free to do whatever people want vs always follow the law (Q32)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 309

End: 310

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. [Interviewer: Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?]
32. Statement 1: A government that enjoys the support of the people should be free to do whatever the people want, even if it is outside the law.
Statement 2: The actions of any government, no matter how popular it is, must always follow the law.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	133	5.6%
2	Agree with 1	181	7.6%
3	Agree with 2	753	31.7%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	1307	55%
5	Agree with neither	1	0%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	3	0.1%

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.

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