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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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Q37. Parliament makes laws vs. president does (Q37)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935
Invalid: -
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 851
End: 852
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: Members of Parliament represent the people; therefore they should make laws for this country, even if the President does not agree.
Statement 2: Since the President represents all of us, he should pass laws without worrying about what Parliament thinks.
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing 14
0%
1 Agree very strongly with 1 19363
35.9%
2 Agree with 1 17049
31.6%
3 Agree with 2 7142
13.2%
4 Agree very strongly with 2 4515
8.4%
5 Agree with neither 3385
6.3%
9 Don’t know 2467
4.6%
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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