Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5

South Africa, 2011

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ZAF_2011_AFB-R5_v01_M

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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)

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Afrobarometer

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Q38. Media checks government vs. avoid negative reporting (Q38)

Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015

Overview

Valid: 2399

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: -1 - 998

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

38. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: The news media should constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like government mistakes and corruption, only harms the country.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	794	33.1%
2	Agree with 1	913	38.1%
3	Agree with 2	353	14.7%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	182	7.6%
5	Agree with neither	124	5.2%
9	Don't know	33	1.4%
998	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.

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