Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9
Lesotho, 2022
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Reference ID
LSO_2022_AFB-R9_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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Q45pt1. Most important problems - 1st response (Q45PT1)
Data file: afrobarometer_release-dataset_les_r9_en_2023-03-01.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
421
End:
424
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Nothing/ no problems | 19 |
1.6%
|
| 1 | Management of the economy | 39 |
3.3%
|
| 2 | Wages, incomes and salaries | 33 |
2.8%
|
| 3 | Unemployment | 266 |
22.2%
|
| 4 | Poverty/destitution | 45 |
3.8%
|
| 5 | Rates and Taxes | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | Loans / credit | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | Farming/agriculture | 14 |
1.2%
|
| 8 | Food shortage/famine | 64 |
5.3%
|
| 9 | Drought | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 10 | Land | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Transportation | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 12 | Communications | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Infrastructure / roads | 237 |
19.8%
|
| 14 | Education | 16 |
1.3%
|
| 15 | Housing | 0 |
0%
|
| 16 | Electricity | 57 |
4.8%
|
| 17 | Water supply | 50 |
4.2%
|
| 18 | Orphans/street children/homeless children | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 19 | Services (other) | 20 |
1.7%
|
| 20 | Health | 12 |
1%
|
| 21 | AIDS | 0 |
0%
|
| 22 | Sickness / Disease | 0 |
0%
|
| 23 | Crime and Security | 131 |
10.9%
|
| 24 | Corruption | 43 |
3.6%
|
| 25 | Political violence | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 26 | Political instability/political divisions/ ethnic tensions | 10 |
0.8%
|
| 27 | Discrimination/ inequality | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 28 | Gender issues / women’s rights | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 29 | Democracy/political rights | 25 |
2.1%
|
| 30 | War (international) | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | Civil war | 0 |
0%
|
| 32 | Agricultural marketing | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 33 | Climate change | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | COVID-19 | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 9995 | Other responses | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 57 |
4.8%
|
| 9999 | Don’t know | 26 |
2.2%
|
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.