Afrobarometer Survey 2021
Round 8

Eswatini, 2021

Reference ID

SWZ_2021_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)

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Nov 01, 2022

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COV-23. Postpone elections/limit campaigns during pandemic (COV23)

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

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 97

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 876

End: 877

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 97

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

When the country is facing a public health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, do you agree or disagree that it is justified for the government to temporarily limit democracy or democratic freedoms by taking the following measures?
COV-23. Postponing elections or limiting political campaigning

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Strongly disagree	138	11.5%
2	Disagree	201	16.8%
3	Neither agree nor disagree	64	5.3%
4	Agree	545	45.4%
5	Strongly agree	191	15.9%
7	Not applicable	0	0%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don't know	46	3.8%
97	Not applicable (COV1=0, 8 or 9)	15	1.3%

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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