Afrobarometer Survey 2016, Round 7

Kenya, 2016

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KEN_2016_AFB-R7_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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Afrobarometer

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Q17. Government information publicly available vs. only for internal use (Q17)

Data file: ken_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1599

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 201

End: 202

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: Information held by public authorities is a public resource and it should be available to ordinary citizens when they request it.
Statement 2: Information held by public authorities is only for use by government officials; it should not have to be shared with the public.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	841	52.6%
2	Agree with 1	462	28.9%
3	Agree with 2	111	6.9%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	97	6.1%
5	Agree with neither	22	1.4%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	66	4.1%

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.

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