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Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Ghana, 2019
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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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Q56. News media free of censorship by the government (Q56)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400
Invalid: -
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 787
End: 788
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
56. In your opinion, how free is the news media in this country to report and comment on the news without censorship or interference by the government?
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing 0
0%
0 Not at all free 100
4.2%
1 Not very free 351
14.6%
2 Somewhat free 782
32.6%
3 Completely free 965
40.2%
8 Refused 3
0.1%
9 Don’t know 199
8.3%
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.
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