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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Q58a. Government prohibits: news or information that is false (Q58A)
Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
799
End:
800
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
Let’s talk about whether the government should be able to limit the sharing of news, information, or opinions on radio and TV, in newspapers, or on the internet and social media.
Literal question
58. Please tell me whether you agree or disagree that the government should be able to limit or prohibit sharing of:
- News or information that is false
- News or information that is false
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Strongly disagree | 187 |
7.8%
|
| 2 | Disagree | 176 |
7.3%
|
| 3 | Neither agree or disagree | 87 |
3.6%
|
| 4 | Agree | 1062 |
44.3%
|
| 5 | Strongly agree | 781 |
32.5%
|
| 8 | Refused | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 104 |
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.