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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Q41. Satisfaction with democracy (Q41)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 98

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 867

End: 868

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

41. Overall, how satisfied are you with the way democracy works in [Country]? Are you:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	14	0%
0	The country is not a democracy	1054	2%
1	Not at all satisfied	9723	18%
2	Not very satisfied	14112	26.2%
3	Fairly satisfied	16405	30.4%
4	Very satisfied	7168	13.3%
9	Do not know	5458	10.1%
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.

Interviewer instructions

Only one option to be chosen. 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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