Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9

Lesotho, 2022

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LSO_2022_AFB-R9_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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Jun 10, 2025

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Jun 10, 2025

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Q23. Support for democracy (Q23)

Data file: afrobarometer_release-dataset_les_r9_en_2023-03-01.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 245

End: 246

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	STATEMENT 3: For someone like me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government we have.	313	26.1%
2	STATEMENT 2: In some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable.	244	20.3%
3	STATEMENT 1: Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.	603	50.3%
8	Refused	1	0.1%
9	Don't know	39	3.3%

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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