Afrobarometer Survey 2014, Round 6
Tanzania, 2014
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Q74a. 1st reason for not taking case to court (Q74A)
Data file: tan_r6_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
2386
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1142
End:
1145
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
74A. Sometimes people do not take a case to the government courts, even if they think they have a legitimate complaint and deserve justice. In your opinion, what would be the most important reason that people like yourself would not take a case to court? 1st response
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Most people do take cases to court | 30 |
1.3%
|
| 1 | They cannot find a lawyer | 40 |
1.7%
|
| 2 | Lawyers are too expensive | 131 |
5.5%
|
| 3 | Absence of legal aid services / absence of free legal help | 90 |
3.8%
|
| 4 | Court costs are too expensive | 234 |
9.8%
|
| 5 | Judges, prosecutors or court officials will demand money | 353 |
14.8%
|
| 6 | People don't have enough time to go to court | 122 |
5.1%
|
| 7 | The distance to the courts is too far | 123 |
5.2%
|
| 8 | They don't speak the language spoken in the court | 37 |
1.6%
|
| 9 | They don't know their legal rights and remedies | 184 |
7.7%
|
| 10 | They don't know how to take a case to court | 84 |
3.5%
|
| 11 | They think the processes are too complex | 64 |
2.7%
|
| 12 | They expect the case to take too long | 112 |
4.7%
|
| 13 | They think the judges and court officials are incompetent | 9 |
0.4%
|
| 14 | They do not expect fair treatment | 282 |
11.8%
|
| 15 | They do not think the judges or courts are independent | 14 |
0.6%
|
| 16 | Don't trust the courts | 94 |
3.9%
|
| 17 | The courts favor the rich / powerful | 79 |
3.3%
|
| 18 | They prefer to go to traditional leaders / local council | 163 |
6.8%
|
| 9995 | Other | 6 |
0.3%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9999 | Don't know | 135 |
5.7%
|
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.