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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Q19b. Media free to publish vs government control (Q19B)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 279

End: 280

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Let’s talk for a moment about the kind of society you would like to have in this country. 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?]
19B. Statement 1: The media should have the right to publish any views and ideas without government control.
Statement 2: The government should have the right to prevent the media from publishing things that it disapproves of.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	613	25.8%
2	Agree with 1	636	26.7%
3	Agree with 2	578	24.3%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	516	21.7%
5	Agree with neither	13	0.5%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	22	0.9%

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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