Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Namibia, 2019

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NAM_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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Apr 28, 2021

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Q25. Political parties divisive vs. many parties needed (Q25)

Data file: nam_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 282

End: 283

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2.
Statement 1: Political parties create division and
confusion; it is therefore unnecessary to have many political parties in Namibia.
Statement 2: Many political parties are needed to make sure that Namibians have real choices in who governs them.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	134	11.2%
2	Agree with 1	186	15.5%
3	Agree with 2	349	29.1%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	500	41.7%
5	Agree with neither	12	1%
8	Refused	1	0.1%
9	Don't know	18	1.5%

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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