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Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1

Ghana, 1999
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GHA_1999_AFB-R1_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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Trust Electoral Commission (Q34I)

Data file: gha_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1889
Invalid: 115
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 4
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 136
End: 136
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
34. How much do you trust the following institutions?
I. Electoral Commission
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I do not trust them at all 422
22.3%
2 I distrust them somewhat 211
11.2%
3 I trust them somewhat 644
34.1%
4 I trust them a lot 612
32.4%
9 don't know 0
0%
Sysmiss 115
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
The enumerator introduced the question by saying, “I am now going to read you a list of people. I would like to know whether, generally speaking, you trust them to do what is right all or most of the time.” Then, the enumerator probed to see whether or not views were held strongly.
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