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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Q65. Country governed by religious law vs secular law (Q65)
Data file: ben_r7_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
852
End:
853
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
65. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Our country should be governed primarily by religious law.
Statement 2: Our country should be governed only by civil law.
Statement 1: Our country should be governed primarily by religious law.
Statement 2: Our country should be governed only by civil law.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 142 |
11.8%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 113 |
9.4%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 304 |
25.3%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 597 |
49.8%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 41 |
3.4%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 3 |
0.3%
|
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
Interviewer probed for strength of opinion asking “Do you agree or agree very strongly?”