Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Nigeria, 2017
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Reference ID
NGA_2017_AFB-R7_v01_M
Producer(s)
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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- nig_r7_data.sav
Q17. Newspapers free to publish vs. government control (Q17)
Data file: nig_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1600
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
210
End:
211
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
17. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: The media should have the right to publish any views and ideas without government control.
Statement 2: The government should have the right to prevent the media from publishing things that it considers harmful to society.
Statement 1: The media should have the right to publish any views and ideas without government control.
Statement 2: The government should have the right to prevent the media from publishing things that it considers harmful to society.
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Agree very strongly with 1 | 509 |
31.8%
|
| 2 | Agree with 1 | 213 |
13.3%
|
| 3 | Agree with 2 | 271 |
16.9%
|
| 4 | Agree very strongly with 2 | 598 |
37.4%
|
| 5 | Agree with neither | 8 |
0.5%
|
| 8 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Don't know | 1 |
0.1%
|
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.