Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1

Ghana, 1999

Reference ID

GHA_1999_AFB-R1_v01_M

Producer(s)

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

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Cannot understand? (Q8)

Data file: gha_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1994

Invalid: 10

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 67

End: 67

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

8.
A. The way the government operates sometimes seems so complicated I cannot really understand what is going on.
B. I can usually understand the way that government works.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A, strongly	683	34.3%
2	A, somewhat	573	28.7%
3	B, somewhat	412	20.7%
4	B, strongly	326	16.3%
Sysmiss		10

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

The enumerator introduced the pair of statements by saying, “I am now going to give you several pairs of statements. Please tell me which one you agree with most. Choose Statement A or Statement B.” Then, the enumerator probed, “Do you agree strongly or just somewhat?”

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