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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Reference ID
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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Q32. Choose leaders through elections vs. other methods (Q32)
Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12
Overview
Valid:
53935
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
-1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
841
End:
842
Width:
2
Range:
-1 - 99
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: We should choose our leaders in this country through regular, open and honest elections.
Statement 2: Since elections sometimes produce bad results, we should adopt other methods for choosing this country’s leaders.
Statement 1: We should choose our leaders in this country through regular, open and honest elections.
Statement 2: Since elections sometimes produce bad results, we should adopt other methods for choosing this country’s leaders.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 18 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 28244 |
52.4%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 14556 |
27%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 4871 |
9%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 3885 |
7.2%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 460 |
0.9%
|
| 9 | Don’t know | 701 |
1.3%
|
| 98 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | Not Asked in this Country | 1200 |
2.2%
|
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?