Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Tanzania, 2018
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Reference ID
TZA_2018_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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Q17b_tan. Government close media houses vs news media publish without fear (Q17B_TAN)
Data file: tan_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
234
End:
235
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Lets talk for a moment about the kind of society you would like to have in this country. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Government should be able to close media houses that publish stories it does not like.
Statement 2: The news media should be free to publish any story that they see fit without fear of being shut down.
Statement 1: Government should be able to close media houses that publish stories it does not like.
Statement 2: The news media should be free to publish any story that they see fit without fear of being shut down.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 900 |
37.5%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 350 |
14.6%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 297 |
12.4%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 783 |
32.6%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 11 |
0.5%
|
| 8 | Refused | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 56 |
2.3%
|
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.