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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Q72b. Most important environmental issue in community (Q72B)

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

Overview

Valid: 1580

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1379

End: 1380

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	None of these / there are no problems	147	9.3%
1	Air pollution	157	9.9%
2	Pollution of water sources	201	12.7%
3	Sanitation or human waste management	245	15.5%
4	Trash disposal, including plastics	638	40.4%
5	Deforestation	67	4.2%
6	Some other issue	42	2.7%
8	Refused	7	0.4%
9	Don’t know	76	4.8%

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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