Afrobarometer Survey 2002, Round 2

South Africa, 2002

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ZAF_2002_AFB-R2_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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Q38. Support for democracy (Q38)

Data file: saf_r2_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 343

End: 344

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

38. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
A: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.
B: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.
C: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	3	0.1%
1	STATEMENT C: Doesn't matter.	440	18.3%
2	STATEMENT B: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	377	15.7%
3	STATEMENT A: Democracy preferable.	1367	57%
9	Don't know	213	8.9%
98	Refused	0	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.

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