Afrobarometer Survey 2001, Round 1.5

Nigeria, 2001

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NGA_2001_AFB-R1.5_v01_M

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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

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Q18. Civil service cutbacks (q18)

Data file: nig_r1-5_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2210

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 124

End: 124

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

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.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Agree very strongly with A	1050	47.5%
2	Agree with A	803	36.3%
3	Agree with B	179	8.1%
4	Agree very stongly with B	76	3.4%
5	Agree with neither	83	3.8%
9	Don't know	19	0.9%

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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