Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Botswana, 2017
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Reference ID
BWA_2017_AFB-R7_v01_M
Producer(s)
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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Jan 16, 2021
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- bot_r7_data_eng.sav
Q82a_BOT. IEC must determine national/local electoral dates (Q82A_BOT)
Data file: bot_r7_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
1198
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
-1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1040
End:
1041
Width:
2
Range:
-1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
82-BOT. As Botswana prepares for the next general elections in October 2019, a number of suggestions have been made aimed at improving the quality of our elections. I would now like to ask whether you approve or disapprove of the following suggested changes.
A. The Independent Electoral Commission should have the power to independently determine the dates of national and local elections.
A. The Independent Electoral Commission should have the power to independently determine the dates of national and local elections.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 12 |
1%
|
| 1 | Strongly Disappprove | 107 |
8.9%
|
| 2 | Disapprove | 161 |
13.4%
|
| 3 | Neither Approve Nor Disapprove | 25 |
2.1%
|
| 4 | Approve | 606 |
50.6%
|
| 5 | Strongly Approve | 204 |
17%
|
| 8 | Refused | 36 |
3%
|
| 9 | Don’t know | 47 |
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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