Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_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 11, 2025

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Q5a. Country’s economic condition compared to 12 months ago (Q5A)

Data file: SAF_R9.data_.final_.wtd_release.30May23.sav

Overview

Valid: 1580

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 206

End: 207

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Much worse	536	33.9%
2	Worse	435	27.5%
3	Same	373	23.6%
4	Better	178	11.3%
5	Much better	41	2.6%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don’t know	17	1.1%

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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