European Social Survey 2012, Round 6

Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria...and 26 more, 2012 - 2013

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ECA_2012_ESS-R6_v03_M

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ESS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)

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Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Best for democracy: government changes policies in response to what most people (chpldm)

Data file: ESS6e02_4

Overview

Valid: 51882

Invalid: 2791

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2462

End: 2471

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 2147483625

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

ASK ALL CARD 42 INTERVIEWER: CODE ONE ANSWER ONLY. IF CODE 1, 2 OR 8 NOT MENTIONED EXPLICITLY, PROBE ONCE: "PLEASE TRY TO CHOOSE AN ANSWER FROM THIS CARD THAT BEST MATCHES YOUR OPINION".

Literal question

E36. Sometimes the government disagrees with what most people think is best for the country. Which one of the statements on this card describes what you think is best for democracy in general?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Government should change its policies	35977	69.3%
2	Government should stick to its policies	9298	17.9%
5	It depends on the circumstances	6607	12.7%
2147483623	Refusal	0	0%
2147483624	Don't know	0	0%
2147483625	No answer	0	0%
11	.D	2791

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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