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World Values Survey2012, Wave 6

Colombia, 2012
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COL_2012_WVS-W6_v01_M
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Andres Casas
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Jan 16, 2021
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  • WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912

Democracy: People choose their leaders in free elections. (V133)

Data file: WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912

Overview

Valid: 1472
Invalid: 40
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 10
Mean: 7.39470108695652
Standard deviation: 2.65071577733415
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 311
End: 312
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 10
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
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Literal question
Many things are 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.”
Categories
Value Category Cases
-5 DE,SE:Inapplicable ; RU:Inappropriate response; HT: Dropped 0
0%
-4 Not asked in survey 0
0%
-3 Not applicable 0
0%
-2 No answer 0
0%
-1 Don´t know 0
0%
1 Not an essential characteristic of democracy 73
5%
2 2 40
2.7%
3 3 47
3.2%
4 4 70
4.8%
5 5 122
8.3%
6 6 99
6.7%
7 7 138
9.4%
8 8 233
15.8%
9 9 223
15.1%
10 An essential characteristic of democracy 427
29%
Sysmiss 40
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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Read out and code one answer for each.
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