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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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Q31. Government gets things done but no citizen influence vs. Govt. accountable (Q31)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935
Invalid: -
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 839
End: 840
Width: 2
Range: -1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: It is more important to have a government that can get things done, even if we have no influence over what it does.
Statement 2: It is more important for citizens to be able to hold government accountable, even if that means it makes decisions more slowly.
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing 18
0%
1 Agree very strongly with 1 11081
20.5%
2 Agree with 1 11991
22.2%
3 Agree with 2 14028
26%
4 Agree very strongly with 2 14702
27.3%
5 Agree with neither 834
1.5%
9 Don’t know 1281
2.4%
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.
Interviewer instructions
Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?
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