Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Ghana, 2019

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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Q21. Support for democracy (Q21)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 285

End: 286

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

21. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
Statement 1: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.
Statement 2: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.
Statement 3: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT 3: Doesn't matter	208	8.7%
2	STATEMENT 2: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	338	14.1%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy preferable	1800	75%
8	Refused	1	0%
9	Don't know	53	2.2%

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.

Interviewer instructions

Read out statements. Read the question in the language of the interview, but always read “democracy” in [English / French / Portuguese].Translate “democracy” into local language only if respondent does not understand the term in the official language.

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