Afrobarometer Survey 2015, Round 6
Sudan, 2015
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Q74a. 1st reason for not taking case to court (Q74A)
Data file: sud_r6_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
970
End:
973
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
74A. Sometimes people do not take a case to the government courts, even if they think they have a legitimate complaint and deserve justice. In your opinion, what would be the most important reason that people like yourself would not take a case to court? 1st response
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Most people do take cases to court | 130 |
10.8%
|
| 1 | They cannot find a lawyer | 47 |
3.9%
|
| 2 | Lawyers are too expensive | 114 |
9.5%
|
| 3 | Absence of legal aid services / absence of free legal help | 137 |
11.4%
|
| 4 | Court costs are too expensive | 95 |
7.9%
|
| 5 | Judges, prosecutors or court officials will demand money | 70 |
5.8%
|
| 6 | People don’t have enough time to go to court | 54 |
4.5%
|
| 7 | The distance to the courts is too far | 30 |
2.5%
|
| 8 | They don’t speak the language spoken in the court | 22 |
1.8%
|
| 9 | They Do not know their legal rights and remedies | 62 |
5.2%
|
| 10 | They Do not know how to take a case to court | 20 |
1.7%
|
| 11 | They think the processes are too complex | 65 |
5.4%
|
| 12 | They expect the case to take too long | 158 |
13.2%
|
| 13 | They think the judges and court officials are incompetent | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 14 | They do not expect fair treatment | 30 |
2.5%
|
| 15 | They do not think the judges or courts are independent | 12 |
1%
|
| 16 | Don’t trust the courts | 13 |
1.1%
|
| 17 | The courts favor the rich / powerful | 25 |
2.1%
|
| 18 | They prefer to go to traditional leaders / local council | 72 |
6%
|
| 9995 | Other | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9999 | Do not know | 34 |
2.8%
|
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.