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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Civil servant jobs? (Q48)

Data file: gha_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2001

Invalid: 3

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 167

End: 167

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

48.
A. All civil servants should keep their jobs, even if paying their salaries is costly to the country.
B. The government cannot afford so many public employees and should lay some of them off.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A, strongly	843	42.1%
2	A, somewhat	606	30.3%
3	B, somewhat	331	16.5%
4	B, strongly	221	11%
Sysmiss		3

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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