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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Q31. Election winner pursues preferred policies vs. compromise w/others (Q31)

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: 233

End: 234

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?]
31. Statement 1: Whichever party or group wins elections should be able to pursue the policies they prefer, without needing to compromise with others.
Statement 2: In a democracy, it is important to make compromises between the preferences and needs of different groups.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	120	10%
2	Agree with 1	136	11.3%
3	Agree with 2	357	29.8%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	472	39.3%
5	Agree with neither	39	3.3%
8	Refused	8	0.7%
9	Don't know	68	5.7%

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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