Afrobarometer Survey 2016, Round 7
Kenya, 2016
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Reference ID
KEN_2016_AFB-R7_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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Q17. Government information publicly available vs. only for internal use (Q17)
Data file: ken_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1599
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
201
End:
202
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
17. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Information held by public authorities is a public resource and it should be available to ordinary citizens when they request it.
Statement 2: Information held by public authorities is only for use by government officials; it should not have to be shared with the public.
Statement 1: Information held by public authorities is a public resource and it should be available to ordinary citizens when they request it.
Statement 2: Information held by public authorities is only for use by government officials; it should not have to be shared with the public.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 841 |
52.6%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 462 |
28.9%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 111 |
6.9%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 97 |
6.1%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 22 |
1.4%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 66 |
4.1%
|
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.