Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_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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Jun 11, 2025

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Q9a. Freedom to say what you think (Q9A)

Data file: SAF_R9.data_.final_.wtd_release.30May23.sav

Overview

Valid: 1580

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 226

End: 227

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Not at all free	165	10.4%
2	Not very free	225	14.2%
3	Somewhat free	429	27.2%
4	Completely free	739	46.8%
8	Refused	3	0.2%
9	Don’t know	19	1.2%

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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