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Afrobarometer South Africa 2000

South Africa, 2000
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ZAF_2000_AFB-SA_v01_M
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Robert Mattes, Yul Derek Davids, Cherrel Africa
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keep govt employees vs retrench govt employees (q26)

Data file: Afrobarometer SA 2000

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Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: -
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Literal question
q26. Please tell me whether you most agree with Statement A or Statement B?
STATEMENT A: The number of people who work for government should not be reduced, even if paying their salaries is costly to the country. Or:
STATEMENT B: The government cannot afford so many public employees and should lay off / retrench some of them.
Categories
Value Category
1 keep govt employees: agree strongly
2 keep govt employees: agree somewhat
3 retrench govt employees: agree somewhat
4 retrench govt employees: agree strongly
5 do not know
6 do not agree with either
98 refused
99 missing
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.

Description

Definition
Opinion about whether government employees should not be reduced or laying off some of them
Universe
The universe for this question is citizens of South Africa 18 years of age or older
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