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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Q23. Support for democracy (Q23)

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

Overview

Valid: 1580

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 287

End: 288

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT 3: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.	471	29.8%
2	STATEMENT 2: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.	347	22%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.	692	43.8%
8	Refused	8	0.5%
9	Don't know	62	3.9%

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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