Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Malawi, 2018
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Reference ID
MWI_2018_AFB-R7_v01_M
Producer(s)
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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Q35. Extent of democracy (Q35)
Data file: mlw_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
98
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
291
End:
292
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
Now let us speak about the political system in this country.
Literal question
35. In your opinion how much of a democracy is Malawi today?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Not a democracy | 160 |
13.3%
|
| 2 | A democracy, with major problems | 504 |
42%
|
| 3 | A democracy, but with minor problems | 246 |
20.5%
|
| 4 | A full democracy | 244 |
20.3%
|
| 8 | Do not understand question / democracy | 27 |
2.3%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 17 |
1.4%
|
| 98 | Refused | 2 |
0.2%
|
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
Read out options. Accept only one option. Read the question in the language of the interview, but always read "democracy" into local language only if respondent does not understand the term in the official language.