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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Q55e. Social media news (Q55E)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 590

End: 591

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Now let us talk about the media and how you get information about politics and other issues.
55. How often do you get news from the following sources?
E. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp or others

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never	1839	77.3%
1	Less than once a month	34	1.4%
2	A few times a month	40	1.7%
3	A few times a week	157	6.6%
4	Every day	224	9.4%
8	Refused	1	0%
9	Don't know	83	3.5%

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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