Afrobarometer Survey 2016, Round 7

Kenya, 2016

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KEN_2016_AFB-R7_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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Q28. Support for democracy (Q28)

Data file: ken_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1599

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 267

End: 268

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

28. 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	2	0.1%
1	STATEMENT 3: Doesn't matter	156	9.8%
2	STATEMENT 2: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	184	11.5%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy preferable	1076	67.3%
8	Refused	1	0.1%
9	Don't know	180	11.3%

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.

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