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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Q28. Support for democracy (Q28)

Data file: mlw_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 277

End: 278

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

28. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion?
Statement 1: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.
Statement 2: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.
Statement 3: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT 3: Doesn't matter	133	11.1%
2	STATEMENT 2: Sometimes non-democratic preferable	284	23.7%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy preferable	749	62.4%
8	Refused	2	0.2%
9	Don't know	32	2.7%

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.

Interviewer instructions

Only one option to be chosen. Read the question in the language of the interview, but always read “democracy” in [English / French / Portuguese]. Translate “democracy” into local language only if respondent does not understand the term in the official language.

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