Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Botswana, 2017
Get Microdata
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)
Created on
Jan 16, 2021
Last modified
Jan 16, 2021
Page views
9602
- Data files
- bot_r7_data_eng.sav
Q19c. Better or worse: media freedom to investigate, report (Q19C)
Data file: bot_r7_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
1198
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
303
End:
304
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
19. Please tell me if there is more or less freedom now for each of the following things compared to a few years ago, or are things about the same?
C. The media’s freedom to investigate and report on government mistakes or to criticize government actions or performance
C. The media’s freedom to investigate and report on government mistakes or to criticize government actions or performance
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Much less freedom | 221 |
18.4%
|
| 2 | Somewhat less freedom | 268 |
22.4%
|
| 3 | Same | 127 |
10.6%
|
| 4 | Somewhat more freedom | 220 |
18.4%
|
| 5 | Much more freedom | 277 |
23.1%
|
| 8 | Refused | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Don’t know | 82 |
6.8%
|
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