Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Botswana, 2017
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Reference ID
BWA_2017_AFB-R7_v01_M
Producer(s)
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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Q63. Government should monitor private communication vs right to privacy (Q63)
Data file: bot_r7_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
1198
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
-1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
918
End:
919
Width:
2
Range:
-1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
63. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Government should be able to monitor private communications, for example on mobile phones, to make sure that people are not plotting violence.
Statement 2: People should have the right to communicate in private without a government agency reading or listening to what they are saying.
Statement 1: Government should be able to monitor private communications, for example on mobile phones, to make sure that people are not plotting violence.
Statement 2: People should have the right to communicate in private without a government agency reading or listening to what they are saying.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 12 |
1%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 265 |
22.1%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 139 |
11.6%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 161 |
13.4%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 551 |
46%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 31 |
2.6%
|
| 8 | Refused | 26 |
2.2%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 13 |
1.1%
|
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
Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?