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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Q90. Traditional leaders bad for democracy (Q90)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1338

End: 1339

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

90. Some people think that because traditional leaders are not elected, they are bad for democracy, but other people think that traditional leaders can work together with elected leaders to make democracy work better. What about you?
Do you think that traditional leaders strengthen democracy, weaken democracy, or don’t make a difference?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Weaken democracy	270	11.3%
2	Don’t make a difference	909	37.9%
3	Strengthen democracy	946	39.4%
8	Refused	12	0.5%
9	Don’t know	263	11%

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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