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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Q63. Finance development from own resources vs use external loans (Q63)
Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
950
End:
951
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
63. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: It is important that as an independent nation, we finance development from our own resources, even if it means paying more taxes.
Statement 2: We should use external loans for the development of the country, even if it increases our indebtedness to foreign countries and institutions.
Statement 1: It is important that as an independent nation, we finance development from our own resources, even if it means paying more taxes.
Statement 2: We should use external loans for the development of the country, even if it increases our indebtedness to foreign countries and institutions.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1 | 484 |
40.3%
|
| 2 | Agree with Statement 1 | 266 |
22.2%
|
| 3 | Agree with Statement 2 | 165 |
13.8%
|
| 4 | Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2 | 209 |
17.4%
|
| 5 | Agree with Neither | 24 |
2%
|
| 8 | Refused to answer | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 51 |
4.3%
|
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.