Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1

Ghana, 1999

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GHA_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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Representatives listen? (Q9)

Data file: gha_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1998

Invalid: 6

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 68

End: 68

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

9.
A. As a community, we are generally able to make our political representatives listen to our problems.
B. We are usually unable to make our MPs and Assemblymen listen to us.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A, strongly	442	22.1%
2	A, somewhat	544	27.2%
3	B, somewhat	419	21%
4	B, strongly	593	29.7%
Sysmiss		6

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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