Afrobarometer Survey 2011-2013, Merged Round 5 Data (34 Countries)
Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Algeria, Egypt, Arab Rep., Ghana, Guin, 2011 - 2013
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Reference ID
AFR_2011_AFB-MR5_v01_M
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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD, Ghana), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR, South Africa), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP, Benin), Institute for Development Studies (IDS, Kenya), Michigan State University (MSU, United States),
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Q77. Why avoid paying taxes (Q77)
Data file: merged-round-5-data-34-countries-2011-2013-last-update-july-2015.sav
Overview
Valid:
45598
Invalid:
5989
Minimum:
-1
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1178
End:
1181
Width:
4
Range:
-1 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 39 |
0.1%
|
| 0 | People don't avoid paying | 2511 |
5.5%
|
| 1 | The tax system is unfair | 3326 |
7.3%
|
| 2 | The taxes are too high | 8474 |
18.6%
|
| 3 | People cannot afford to pay | 14295 |
31.4%
|
| 4 | The poor services they receive from government | 4438 |
9.7%
|
| 5 | Government does not listen to them | 661 |
1.4%
|
| 6 | Government wastes tax money | 2290 |
5%
|
| 7 | Government officials steal tax money | 1782 |
3.9%
|
| 8 | They know they will not be caught | 1183 |
2.6%
|
| 9 | Greed / selfishness | 644 |
1.4%
|
| 10 | Ignorance, don't know how to pay or don’t understand need to pay | 1217 |
2.7%
|
| 140 | People don't want to pay tax | 0 |
0%
|
| 260 | Wickedness | 0 |
0%
|
| 261 | The Government does not come for it | 0 |
0%
|
| 340 | People are corrupt | 0 |
0%
|
| 460 | Dishonest | 0 |
0%
|
| 461 | Wrong attitude | 0 |
0%
|
| 660 | Refusal to pay | 0 |
0%
|
| 661 | Negligence | 15 |
0%
|
| 780 | Government stopped people from paying the tax(s) | 9 |
0%
|
| 1220 | People's greed, selfishness, dishonesty, unwillingness to pay | 0 |
0%
|
| 1221 | Don't know how taxes will be used | 0 |
0%
|
| 1300 | They don't know how money will be used | 0 |
0%
|
| 1340 | Opposition against or lack of trust on Government | 0 |
0%
|
| 1620 | People don't understand how the money is used | 0 |
0%
|
| 1621 | People cheat, are corrupt | 0 |
0%
|
| 1622 | Employers don't deduct or don't give to government | 6 |
0%
|
| 9995 | Other | 254 |
0.6%
|
| 9997 | Not asked | 0 |
0%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 30 |
0.1%
|
| 9999 | Don't know | 4424 |
9.7%
|
| Sysmiss | 5989 |
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.