Afrobarometer Survey 2021
Round 8

Eswatini, 2021

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SWZ_2021_AFB-R8_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)

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

Data file: afrobarometer_release-data_esw_r8_en_2021-09-21.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 614

End: 615

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	147	12.3%
2	Disagree	163	13.6%
3	Neither Agree or Disagree	47	3.9%
4	Agree	602	50.2%
5	Strongly Agree	221	18.4%
8	Refused to Answer	1	0.1%
9	Don't Know/Haven't heard enough to say	19	1.6%

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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