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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Afrobarometer

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Nov 01, 2022

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Q63. Finance development from own resources vs use external loans (Q63)

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: 640

End: 641

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?]
Statement 1: It is important that as an independent nation, we finance development from our own resources, even if it means paying more taxes.
Statement 2: We should use external loans for the development of the country, even if it increases our indebtedness to foreign countries and institutions.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1	286	23.8%
2	Agree with Statement 1	351	29.3%
3	Agree with Statement 2	240	20%
4	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2	259	21.6%
5	Agree with Neither	41	3.4%
8	Refused to answer	1	0.1%
9	Don't know	22	1.8%

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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