Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Malawi, 2018
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MWI_2018_AFB-R7_v01_M
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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Q19c. Better or worse: media freedom to investigate, report (Q19C)
Data file: mlw_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
227
End:
228
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
19c. Please tell me if there is more or less freedom now for each of the following things compared to a few years ago, or are things about the same?
- The media’s freedom to investigate and report on government mistakes or to criticize government actions or performance?
- The media’s freedom to investigate and report on government mistakes or to criticize government actions or performance?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Much less freedom | 138 |
11.5%
|
| 2 | Somewhat less freedom | 237 |
19.8%
|
| 3 | Same | 83 |
6.9%
|
| 4 | Somewhat more freedom | 271 |
22.6%
|
| 5 | Much more freedom | 375 |
31.3%
|
| 8 | Refused | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 9 | Don’t know | 94 |
7.8%
|
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.