Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1

Botswana, 1999

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BWA_1999_AFB-R1_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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Preference for democratic VS non-democratic govt (Q78)

Data file: bot_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 810

End: 814

Width: 5

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

78. With which of these statements are you most in agreement? A, B, or C?
A. Democracy is preferable to any other form of government.
B. In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable to a democratic government.
C. For someone like me, a democratic or non-democratic regime makes no difference.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Democracy always preferable	988	82.3%
2	Non-democratic govt can be preferable	80	6.7%
3	Makes no difference	67	5.6%
4	Don't know	32	2.7%
98	Refused	0	0%
99	Missing data	33	2.8%

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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