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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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Q16. Government bans organizations vs. join any (Q16)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935
Invalid: -
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 374
End: 375
Width: 2
Range: -1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Lets talk for a moment about the kind of society you would like to have in this country. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Government should be able to ban any organization that goes against its policies.
Statement 2: We should be able to join any organization, whether or not the government approves of it.
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing 19
0%
1 Agree very strongly with 1 8861
16.4%
2 Agree with 1 9195
17%
3 Agree with 2 16087
29.8%
4 Agree very strongly with 2 17136
31.8%
5 Agree with neither 1177
2.2%
9 Don’t know 1460
2.7%
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: Doyou agree or agree very strongly?
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