Afrobarometer Survey 2020
Round 8

Ethiopia, 2019 - 2020

Reference ID

ETH_2020_AFB-R8_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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Q28. Experts make most important decisions vs no need for experts (Q28)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 301

End: 302

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. [Interviewer: Probe for strength of opinion: Do you agree or agree very strongly?]
28. Statement 1: Experts with specialized education or skills are needed to help make the most important decisions for our country.
Statement 2: The people and their elected representatives know what is best; they do not need the advice of experts to run the country.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	1181	49.7%
2	Agree with 1	812	34.1%
3	Agree with 2	247	10.4%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	125	5.3%
5	Agree with neither	1	0%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	12	0.5%

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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