Afrobarometer Survey 2012, Round 5

Ghana, 2012

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GHA_2012_AFB-R5_v01_M

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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)

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Q81b2-gha. Govt. appoint party foot soldiers into public service regardless of their qualification and skills (Q81B2GHA)

Data file: gha_r5_data

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1252

End: 1254

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

81B-GHA. For each of the following, please indicate whether you think the act is wrong and must be discouraged, wrong but reasonable to politicians or not wrong at all?
2. Governments appoint party foot soldiers into public service without regard to their qualification and skills.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Wrong and must be discouraged	1794	74.8%
1	Wrong but reasonable to politicians	451	18.8%
2	Not at all wrong	77	3.2%
9	Don't know	78	3.3%
998	refused	0	0%

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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