World Values Survey 2006, Wave 5
United States, 2006
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Democracy: Civil rights protect people´s liberty against opp (V157)
Data file: WV5_Data_United_States_2006_Spss_v20180912
Overview
Valid:
1196
Invalid:
53
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
10
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
465
End:
466
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
(Show Card T)
Literal question
Many things may be desirable, but not all of them are essential characteristics of democracy. Please tell me for each of the following things how essential you think it is as a characteristic of democracy. Use this scale where 1 means "not at all an essential characteristic of democracy" and 10 means it definitely is "an essential characteristic of democracy" - V157. Civil rights protect people's liberty against oppression.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not an essential characteristic of democracy | 33 |
2.8%
|
| 2 | 2 | 11 |
0.9%
|
| 3 | 3 | 20 |
1.7%
|
| 4 | 4 | 24 |
2%
|
| 5 | 5 | 144 |
12%
|
| 6 | 6 | 64 |
5.4%
|
| 7 | 7 | 110 |
9.2%
|
| 8 | 8 | 122 |
10.2%
|
| 9 | 9 | 142 |
11.9%
|
| 10 | An essential characteristic of democracy | 526 |
44%
|
| -5 | Missing; Not asked by the interviewer | 29 | |
| -4 | Not asked | 0 | |
| -3 | Not applicable | 0 | |
| -2 | No answer | 24 | |
| -1 | Don´t know | 0 |
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.
Interviewer instructions
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