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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Nov 01, 2022

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COV-24. Politicians take advantage of COVID-19 pandemic (COV24)

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: 878

End: 879

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 97

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In some countries, people have been worried that governments and politicians are trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their wealth or power, or to permanently restrict freedoms or political competition. What about you? How worried are you, if at all, that the following things are taking place or might take place in Eswatini:
COV-24. Politicians are using the pandemic as an opportunity to increase their power and authority

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Not at all worried	119	9.9%
2	Not very worried	397	33.1%
3	Somewhat worried	293	24.4%
4	Very worried	309	25.8%
7	Not applicable	0	0%
8	Refused	12	1%
9	Don't know	55	4.6%
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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