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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Q33. Media checks government vs. avoid negative reporting (Q33)

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: 237

End: 238

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?]
33. Statement 1: The news media should constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.
Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like government mistakes and corruption, only harms the country.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Agree very strongly with 1	407	33.9%
2	Agree with 1	269	22.4%
3	Agree with 2	211	17.6%
4	Agree very strongly with 2	300	25%
5	Agree with neither	10	0.8%
8	Refused	2	0.2%
9	Don't know	1	0.1%

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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