Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Ghana, 2019
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Reference ID
GHA_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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Q32. Elected government free to do whatever the people want vs bound by laws (Q32)
Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
307
End:
308
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: A government that enjoys the support of the people should be free to do whatever the people want, even if it is outside the law.
Statement 2: The actions of any government, no matter how popular it is, must always follow the law.
Statement 1: A government that enjoys the support of the people should be free to do whatever the people want, even if it is outside the law.
Statement 2: The actions of any government, no matter how popular it is, must always follow the law.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 114 |
4.8%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 170 |
7.1%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 545 |
22.7%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 1526 |
63.6%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 26 |
1.1%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 19 |
0.8%
|
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.