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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Q79-SAF.(1) The government should be able to restrict access to any information it sees fit, even if this allows it to cover up mistakes and corruption. (2)The government should only be able to restrict access to information that is vital to national (Q79_SAF)

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

79-SAF. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: The government should be able to restrict access to any information it sees fit, even if this allows it to cover up mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: The government should only be able to restrict access to information that is vital to national security, even if this means it is embarassed from time to time.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	278	11.6%
2	Agree with 1	612	25.5%
3	Agree with 2	805	33.6%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	382	15.9%
5	Agree with neither	216	9%
9	Don't know	106	4.4%
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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