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

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AFR_2016_AFB-MR6_v01_M

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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),

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Q27c. Contact official for help (Q27C)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 432

End: 433

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]
C. Contacted a government official to ask for help or make a complaint

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	27	0.1%
0	No, would never do this	12610	23.4%
1	No, but would do if had the chance	32407	60.1%
2	Yes, once or twice	4359	8.1%
3	Yes, several times	2686	5%
4	Yes, often	1075	2%
9	Don't know	771	1.4%
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.

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