World Values Survey 2012, Wave 6
Taiwan, 2012
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Reference ID
TWN_2012_WVS-W6_v01_M
Producer(s)
Cheng-tian Kuo, Professor and Chairman, Political Science Department
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- WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912
Democracy: People choose their leaders in free elections. (V133)
Data file: WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912
Overview
Valid:
1173
Invalid:
65
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
10
Mean:
8.70247229326513
Standard deviation:
1.80801279442468
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
311
End:
312
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
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Literal question
Many things are desirable, but not all of them are essential characteristics of democracy. Please tell me for each of the following things how essential you think it is as a characteristic of democracy. Use this scale where 1 means “not at all an essential characteristic of democracy” and 10 means it definitely is “an essential characteristic of democracy”
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -5 | DE,SE:Inapplicable ; RU:Inappropriate response; HT: Dropped | 0 |
0%
|
| -4 | Not asked in survey | 0 |
0%
|
| -3 | Not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| -2 | No answer | 0 |
0%
|
| -1 | Don´t know | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Not an essential characteristic of democracy | 9 |
0.8%
|
| 2 | 2 | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 3 | 3 | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 4 | 4 | 11 |
0.9%
|
| 5 | 5 | 58 |
4.9%
|
| 6 | 6 | 57 |
4.9%
|
| 7 | 7 | 92 |
7.8%
|
| 8 | 8 | 175 |
14.9%
|
| 9 | 9 | 147 |
12.5%
|
| 10 | An essential characteristic of democracy | 613 |
52.3%
|
| Sysmiss | 65 |
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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