Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Ghana, 2019

Reference ID

GHA_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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Oct 14, 2021

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Q44m. Contact with police in other situations (Q44M)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 439

End: 440

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I would like to talk to you about experiences that some people have in accessing certain essential government services.

Literal question

In the past 12 months, how often have you encountered the police in other situations, like at checkpoints, during identity checks or traffic stops, or during an investigation?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never	1337	55.7%
1	Once or twice	246	10.3%
2	A few times	327	13.6%
3	Often	472	19.7%
8	Refused	1	0%
9	Don't know	17	0.7%

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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