Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Botswana, 2019

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BWA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M

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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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Q57c. Spread false information: news media and journalists (Q57C)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 918

End: 919

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

57. Please tell me how often, in this country, you think people from each of the following groups spread information that they know is false?
- News media and journalists

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never	294	24.5%
1	Rarely	248	20.7%
2	Sometimes	367	30.6%
3	Often	200	16.7%
8	Refused	1	0.1%
9	Don't know/ Haven’t heard	90	7.5%

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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