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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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Q44. Citizens must pay taxes vs. no need to tax the people (Q44)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935
Invalid: -
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 877
End: 878
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: Citizens must pay their taxes to the government in order for our country to develop.
Statement 2: The government can find enough resources for development from other sources without having to tax the people.
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing 21
0%
1 Agree very strongly with 1 19452
36.1%
2 Agree with 1 14167
26.3%
3 Agree with 2 8432
15.6%
4 Agree very strongly with 2 9930
18.4%
5 Agree with neither 824
1.5%
9 Don’t know 1109
2.1%
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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