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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Q59c. Social media:makes people more likely to believe false news (Q59C)

Data file: eth_r8.data_new_final_wtd_release_31mar21.sav

Overview

Valid: 2378

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 616

End: 617

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

59A. Have you heard about social media, for example, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp? [If yes] Regardless of whether you personally use social media yourself, please tell me whether you agree or disagree that social media:
C. Makes people more likely to believe false news?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Strongly disagree	63	2.6%
2	Disagree	138	5.8%
3	Neither agree or disagree	57	2.4%
4	Agree	410	17.2%
5	Strongly agree	160	6.7%
7	Not applicable	1537	64.6%
8	Refused	1	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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