Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Uganda, 2019
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Reference ID
UGA_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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Oct 14, 2021
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Q79a_UGA. Most important characteristic in President in election decision (Q79A_UGA)
Data file: uga_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1185
End:
1186
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
There are many reasons why people vote for certain presidential candidates. These include characteristics of the candidate or their qualities. How about you, which of the following factors would you say is the most important in your voting decision for president?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | None of the above | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 1 | The candidate’s party or manifesto | 381 |
31.8%
|
| 2 | The candidate’s age or personality | 154 |
12.8%
|
| 3 | The candidate’s home area or ethnic group | 31 |
2.6%
|
| 4 | The gifts or money offered by the candidate or their agents | 26 |
2.2%
|
| 5 | The candidate’s leadership qualities or experience | 578 |
48.2%
|
| 6 | Some other reason | 17 |
1.4%
|
| 8 | Refused | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 9 | Don’t know | 5 |
0.4%
|
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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