Afrobarometer Survey 2003, Round 2

Botswana, 2003

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BWA_2003_AFB-R2_v01_M

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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)

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Q12. Prefer market or government-run economy (q12)

Data file: bot_r2_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 159

End: 160

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

12. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
A: A free market economy is preferable to an economy run by the government. In a free market economy, individuals decide for themselves which goods to produce and what to buy and sell. In a government-run economy, the government decides these things.
B: A government-run economy is preferable to a free market economy.
C: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of economic system we have.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing Data	0	0%
1	STATEMENT C: doesn't matter	147	12.3%
2	STATEMENT B: government-run economy	693	57.8%
3	STATEMENT A: market economy	292	24.3%
9	Don't know	68	5.7%
98	Refused to Answer	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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