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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Q89a. Traditional leaders advise on vote vs stay out of politics (Q89A)

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: 826

End: 827

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: Traditional leaders have a better grasp of political issues than ordinary people; they should give their people advice about how to vote.
Statement 2: Traditional leaders should stay out of politics and leave people to make their own decisions about how to vote.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 1	197	16.4%
2	Agree with Statement 1	238	19.8%
3	Agree with Statement 2	327	27.3%
4	Agree Very Strongly with Statement 2	335	27.9%
5	Agree with Neither	23	1.9%
8	Refused to answer	9	0.8%
9	Don't know	71	5.9%
99	Not asked in the country	0	0%

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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