Afrobarometer Survey 2014-2015, Merged Round 6 Data (36 Countries)

Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Algeria, Egypt, Arab Rep., Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, K, 2014 - 2015

Reference ID

AFR_2016_AFB-MR6_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD, Ghana), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR, South Africa), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP, Benin), Institute for Development Studies (IDS, Kenya), Michigan State University (MSU, United States),

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

Page views

9393

Downloads

191

Q27b. Contact media (Q27B)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 430

End: 431

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

27. Here is a list of actions that people sometimes take as citizens when they are dissatisfied with government perfomance. For each of these, please tell me whether you, personally, have done any of these things during the past year. [If Yes, read out options 2-4]. If not, would you do this if you had the chance? [For No, read out options 0 and 1]
B. Contacted the media, like calling a radio program or writing a letter to a newspaper

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	17	0%
0	No, would never do this	14587	27%
1	No, but would do if had the chance	32500	60.3%
2	Yes, once or twice	3088	5.7%
3	Yes, several times	2033	3.8%
4	Yes, often	911	1.7%
9	Don't know	799	1.5%
98	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.

Back to Catalog