Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7

Botswana, 2017

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BWA_2017_AFB-R7_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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Q56e. Handling narrowing income gaps (Q56E)

Data file: bot_r7_data_eng.sav

Overview

Valid: 1198

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 846

End: 847

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Now let’s speak about the performance of the present government of this country.
56. How well or badly would you say the current government is handling the following matters, or haven’t you heard enough to say?
E. Narrowing gaps between rich and poor

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	12	1%
1	Very Badly	286	23.9%
2	Fairly Badly	353	29.5%
3	Fairly Well	416	34.7%
4	Very Well	61	5.1%
8	Refused	6	0.5%
9	Don't know / Haven’t heard enough	64	5.3%

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.

Interviewer instructions

Probe for strength of opinion.

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