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Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011
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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)
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Q58. Essential characteristics of democracy: participation, no corruption, courts etc. (Q58)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

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Valid: 2399
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
58. And here is another list. Which one of these things would you choose as the most essential characteristic of democracy?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 People are free to take part in demonstrations and protests 585
24.4%
2 Politics is clean and free of corruption 745
31.1%
3 The court protects ordinary people if the government mistrea 348
14.5%
4 People receive aid from government, such as food parcels, wh 448
18.7%
8 None of these 224
9.3%
9 Don’t know/Haven't heard enough 49
2%
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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