Afrobarometer Survey 2010, Round 4.5

Zimbabwe, 2010

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ZWE_2010_AFB-R4.5_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)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Q28. Media checks government vs. avoid negative reporting (Q28)

Data file: zim_r4-5_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1192

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 1.92365771812081

Standard deviation: 1.53330034617959

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 252

End: 254

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

28. Which of the following statements is closest to your view? Choose Statement 1 or Statement 2
Statement 1: The news media should constantly investigate and report on corruption and the mistakes made by the government.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like corruption, only harms the country.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	656	55%
2	Agree with 1	294	24.7%
3	Agree with 2	99	8.3%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	79	6.6%
5	Agree with neither	35	2.9%
9	Don't Know	29	2.4%
998	Refused	0	0%

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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