Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Benin, 2017
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Reference ID
BEN_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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Q57e. Better or worse: government assists people to resolve problems (Q57E)
Data file: ben_r7_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
812
End:
813
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
57. Please tell me if the following things are worse or better now than they were a few years ago, or are they about the same?
- The ability of ordinary people to get assistance from government to resolve problems for themselves or their communities.
- The ability of ordinary people to get assistance from government to resolve problems for themselves or their communities.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Much worse | 139 |
11.6%
|
| 2 | Worse | 325 |
27.1%
|
| 3 | Same | 479 |
39.9%
|
| 4 | Better | 210 |
17.5%
|
| 5 | Much Better | 29 |
2.4%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don’t know | 18 |
1.5%
|
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
Interviewer probed for strength of opinion.