Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9

Malawi, 2022

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MWI_2022_AFB-R9_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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Q30. Extent of democracy (Q30)

Data file: afrobarometer_release-dataset_mlw_r9_en_2023-03-01.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 98

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 258

End: 259

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Not a democracy	121	10.1%
2	A democracy, with major problems	528	44%
3	A democracy, but with minor problems	252	21%
4	A full democracy	263	21.9%
8	Do not understand question /do not understand what ‘democracy’ is	11	0.9%
9	Don’t know	22	1.8%
98	Refused	3	0.3%

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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