Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Botswana, 2019

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BWA_2019_AFB-R8_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. Finance development from own resources vs use external loans (Q63)

Data file: bot_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 950

End: 951

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: It is important that as an independent nation, we finance development from our own resources, even if it means paying more taxes.
Statement 2: We should use external loans for the development of the country, even if it increases our indebtedness to foreign countries and institutions.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1	484	40.3%
2	Agree with Statement 1	266	22.2%
3	Agree with Statement 2	165	13.8%
4	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2	209	17.4%
5	Agree with Neither	24	2%
8	Refused to answer	1	0.1%
9	Don't know	51	4.3%

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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