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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Q46. How effective the news media reveals government mistakes and corruption (Q46)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 889

End: 890

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

46. In this country, how effective is the news media in revealing government mistakes and corrruption?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	73	0.1%
0	Not at all effective	5312	9.8%
1	Not very effective	11071	20.5%
2	Somewhat effective	19693	36.5%
3	Very effective	12779	23.7%
9	Don't know	5007	9.3%
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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