Afrobarometer Survey 2001, Round 1.5

Nigeria, 2001

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NGA_2001_AFB-R1.5_v01_M

Producer(s)

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)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Q70 Government should be a father or employee? (q70)

Data file: nig_r1-5_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2210

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 289

End: 289

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Lets talk for a moment about the kind of society we would like to have in this country.
Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement A or Statement B. A: People are like children; the government should take care of them like a father.
B: Government is an employee; the people are the bosses who control the government.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Agree very strongly with A	781	35.3%
2	Agree with A	582	26.3%
3	Agree with B	396	17.9%
4	Agree very stongly with B	341	15.4%
5	Agree with neither	96	4.3%
9	Don't know	14	0.6%

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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