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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Q63. Government should monitor private communication vs right to privacy (Q63)

Data file: ken_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1599

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 742

End: 743

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

63. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Government should be able to monitor private communications, for example on mobile phones, to make sure that people are not plotting violence.
Statement 2: People should have the right to communicate in private without a government agency reading or listening to what they are saying.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	7	0.4%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	548	34.3%
2	Agree with 1	310	19.4%
3	Agree with 2	251	15.7%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	359	22.5%
5	Agree with neither	49	3.1%
8	Refused	2	0.1%
9	Don't know	73	4.6%

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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