Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_2022_AFB-R9_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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Jun 11, 2025

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Q44d: How often: police use excessive force with criminals (Q44D)

Data file: SAF_R9.data_.final_.wtd_release.30May23.sav

Overview

Valid: 1580

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 457

End: 458

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Never	130	8.2%
2	Rarely	201	12.7%
3	Sometimes	448	28.4%
4	Often	322	20.4%
5	Always	314	19.9%
8	Refused	3	0.2%
9	Don’t know	162	10.3%

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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