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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Q25. Political parties divisive vs. many parties needed (Q25)

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: 221

End: 222

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?]
25. Statement 1: Political parties create division and confusion; it is therefore unnecessary to have many political parties in Eswatini.
Statement 2: Many political parties are needed to make sure that Emaswati have real choices in who governs them.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	265	22.1%
2	Agree with 1	189	15.8%
3	Agree with 2	267	22.3%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	440	36.7%
5	Agree with neither	15	1.3%
8	Refused	7	0.6%
9	Don't know	17	1.4%

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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