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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Q58a. Govt can prohibit sharing: news or information that is false (Q58A)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 604

End: 605

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Let’s talk about whether the government should be able to limit the sharing of news, information, or opinions on radio and TV, in newspapers, or on the internet and social media.
58. Please tell me whether you agree or disagree that the government should be able to limit or prohibit sharing of:
A. News or information that is false

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Strongly disagree	200	8.4%
2	Disagree	221	9.3%
3	Neither agree or disagree	60	2.5%
4	Agree	988	41.5%
5	Strongly agree	881	37%
8	Refused	1	0%
9	Don't know	27	1.1%

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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