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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Q30. Support for democracy (Q30)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 837

End: 838

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

30. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion? [Read out statements. Only one option to be chosen.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	53	0.1%
1	STATEMENT 3: Doesn't matter	6348	11.8%
2	STATEMENT 2: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	6010	11.1%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy preferable	35698	66.2%
9	Don't know	5826	10.8%
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.

Interviewer instructions

Read the question in the language of the interview, but always read “democracy” in Arabic. Translate “democracy" into local language only if respondent does not understand Arabic term.]

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