Afrobarometer Survey 2001, Round 1
Tanzania, 2001
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What does democracy mean to you (Q31A)
Data file: tan_r1_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
2198
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
101
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
193
End:
195
Width:
3
Range:
0 - 101
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
31. What, if anything, does democracy mean to you?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Don't know, can't / unable to explain | 321 |
14.6%
|
| 1 | Civil liberties / personal freedoms | 814 |
37%
|
| 2 | Voting / electoral choice / multiparty competition | 257 |
11.7%
|
| 3 | Social / economic development | 79 |
3.6%
|
| 4 | Government by the people / of the people / for the people | 54 |
2.5%
|
| 5 | Peace / Unity | 92 |
4.2%
|
| 6 | Governance / effectiveness / accountability | 59 |
2.7%
|
| 7 | Equality / justice | 156 |
7.1%
|
| 8 | Rule of law | 16 |
0.7%
|
| 9 | Personal security | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | National independence | 7 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | Majority rule | 25 |
1.1%
|
| 12 | Group rights and freedoms / freedoms | 15 |
0.7%
|
| 13 | Power-sharing /unity of gov | 4 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | Government to provide civic education | 17 |
0.8%
|
| 19 | Other positive meanings | 190 |
8.6%
|
| 20 | Conflict / confusion | 6 |
0.3%
|
| 21 | Corruption / abuse of power | 0 |
0%
|
| 22 | Social / economic hardship | 1 |
0%
|
| 23 | Government of the rich | 0 |
0%
|
| 24 | Bad / poor govt. / weak implementation | 0 |
0%
|
| 25 | Colonialism, foreign concept / domination | 1 |
0%
|
| 29 | Other negative meanings | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 80 | Nothing | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 81 | Democracy meanings | 0 |
0%
|
| 82 | Too afraid to give opinion | 0 |
0%
|
| 83 | Does not matter | 4 |
0.2%
|
| 91 | Civilian politics / government | 1 |
0%
|
| 92 | Change of gov / leadership / laws | 1 |
0%
|
| 94 | Never heard of democracy | 0 |
0%
|
| 95 | Other null / neutral meanings | 29 |
1.3%
|
| 96 | No further answer | 12 |
0.5%
|
| 98 | Refused / won't explain | 16 |
0.7%
|
| 99 | Missing data | 0 |
0%
|
| 101 | Other | 14 |
0.6%
|
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
Interviewer could prompt if necessary, “When you hear the word “democracy,” what is the first thing that comes to your mind?” The English word “democracy” was always used, whether the rest of the question was in English or Swahili.