Afrobarometer Survey 2003, Round 2
Lesotho, 2003
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Q18. Civil servants keep jobs vs. lay offs to reduce costs (q18)
Data file: les_r2_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
176
End:
177
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
18. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement A or Statement B.
A: All civil servants should keep their jobs, even if paying their salaries is costly to the country.
B: The government cannot afford so many public employees and should lay some of them off.
A: All civil servants should keep their jobs, even if paying their salaries is costly to the country.
B: The government cannot afford so many public employees and should lay some of them off.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with A | 604 |
50.3%
|
| 2 | Agree with A | 349 |
29.1%
|
| 3 | Agree with B | 112 |
9.3%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with B | 71 |
5.9%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 41 |
3.4%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 23 |
1.9%
|
| 98 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
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.