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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- gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Q59c. Social media:makes people more likely to believe false news (Q59C)
Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
811
End:
812
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
[If yes] Regardless of whether you personally use social media yourself, please tell me whether you agree or disagree that social media:
- Makes people more likely to believe false news?
- Makes people more likely to believe false news?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Strongly disagree | 44 |
1.8%
|
| 2 | Disagree | 78 |
3.3%
|
| 3 | Neither agree or disagree | 48 |
2%
|
| 4 | Agree | 769 |
32%
|
| 5 | Strongly agree | 567 |
23.6%
|
| 7 | Not applicable | 833 |
34.7%
|
| 8 | Refused | 1 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 60 |
2.5%
|
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.
Question post text
If answer to Q59A was 0=No or 9=DK, select 7 = NA for all parts B-F and continue to Q60 (tablet will do an automatic skip)