Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011

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ZAF_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M

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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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Q16. Politics and government too complicated (Q16)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

Overview

Valid: 2399

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

16. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Sometimes politics and government seem so complicated that a person like me cannot really understand what is going on.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Strongly agree	557	23.2%
2	Agree	996	41.5%
3	Neither agree nor disagree	329	13.7%
4	Disagree	313	13%
5	Strongly disagree	171	7.1%
9	Don`t know/Don`t understand	33	1.4%

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: Doyou agree or agree very strongly?

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