Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Botswana, 2019
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Reference ID
BWA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Oct 14, 2021
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Q55e. Social media news (Q55E)
Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
910
End:
911
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
Now let us talk about the media and how you get information about politics and other issues.
Literal question
55. How often do you get news from the following sources?
- Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp or others
- Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp or others
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never | 534 |
44.5%
|
| 1 | Less than once a month | 23 |
1.9%
|
| 2 | A few times a month | 81 |
6.8%
|
| 3 | A few times a week | 140 |
11.7%
|
| 4 | Every day | 411 |
34.3%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't Know | 11 |
0.9%
|
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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