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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Q17. Newspapers free to publish vs. government control (Q17)

Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12

Overview

Valid: 53935

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 376

End: 377

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: The media should have the right to publish any views and ideas without government control.
Statement 2: The government should have the right to prevent the media from publishing things that it considers harmful to society.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	13	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	16676	30.9%
2	Agree with 1	12877	23.9%
3	Agree with 2	11615	21.5%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	10607	19.7%
5	Agree with neither	841	1.6%
9	Donâ€™t know	1306	2.4%
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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