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World Values Survey 2008, Wave 5

Egypt, 2008
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EGY_2008_WVS-W5_v01_M
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Magued Osman
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Jan 16, 2021
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  • WV5_Data_Egypt_2008_Spss_v20180912

Democracy: The army takes over when government is incompeten (V156)

Data file: WV5_Data_Egypt_2008_Spss_v20180912

Overview

Valid: 2991
Invalid: 60
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 10
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 463
End: 464
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 10
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
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Literal question
Many things may be desirable, but not all of them are essential characteristics of democracy. Please tell me for each of the following things how essential you think it is as a characteristic of democracy. Use this scale where 1 means "not at all an essential characteristic of democracy" and 10 means it definitely is "an essential characteristic of democracy" - V156. The army takes over when government is incompetent
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Not an essential characteristic of democracy 215
7.2%
2 2 61
2%
3 3 153
5.1%
4 4 176
5.9%
5 5 332
11.1%
6 6 292
9.8%
7 7 386
12.9%
8 8 307
10.3%
9 9 183
6.1%
10 An essential characteristic of democracy 886
29.6%
-5 Missing; Not asked by the interviewer 0
-4 Not asked 0
-3 Not applicable 0
-2 Don't answer 1
-1 Don´t know 59
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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