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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Q22. Govt gets things done vs. govt accountable to citizens (Q22)

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: 215

End: 216

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?]
22. Statement 1: It is more important to have a government that can get things done, even if we have no influence over what it does.
Statement 2: It is more important for citizens to be able to hold government accountable, even if that means it makes decisions more slowly.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	207	17.3%
2	Agree with 1	199	16.6%
3	Agree with 2	335	27.9%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	444	37%
5	Agree with neither	9	0.8%
8	Refused	2	0.2%
9	Don't know	4	0.3%

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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