Afrobarometer Survey 2000, Round 1

Lesotho, 2000

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LSO_2000_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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Preference for democratic VS non-democratic govt (Q79)

Data file: les_r1_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1177

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 368

End: 369

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

79. With which of these statements are you most in agreement? A, B, or C?
A. Democracy is preferable to any other form of government.
B. In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable to a democratic government.
C. For someone like me, a democratic or non-democratic regime makes no difference.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Democracy always preferable	456	38.7%
2	Non-democratic govt can be preferable	129	11%
3	Makes no difference	267	22.7%
4	Don't know	281	23.9%
98	Refused	0	0%
99	Missing data	44	3.7%

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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