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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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Q36. Media checks government vs. avoid negative reporting (Q36)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935
Invalid: -
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 98
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 849
End: 850
Width: 2
Range: -1 - 98
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: The news media should constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like government mistakes and corruption, only harms the country.
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing 15
0%
1 Agree very strongly with 1 22220
41.2%
2 Agree with 1 14778
27.4%
3 Agree with 2 8702
16.1%
4 Agree very strongly with 2 6042
11.2%
5 Agree with neither 751
1.4%
9 Don’t know 1426
2.6%
98 Refused 1
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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