Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9

Malawi, 2022

Reference ID

MWI_2022_AFB-R9_v01_M

Producer(s)

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)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer

Metadata

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Study website

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Jun 10, 2025

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Jun 10, 2025

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Q83b-mlw. Type of people associated with witchcraft (Q83B_MLW)

Data file: afrobarometer_release-dataset_mlw_r9_en_2023-03-01.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 461

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 720

End: 722

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 461

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
1	Very rich people	44	3.7%
2	Very poor people	51	4.3%
3	Old women	546	45.5%
4	Old men	156	13%
5	Rude children	66	5.5%
6	Traditional healers/ herbalist	31	2.6%
7	Traditional leaders	6	0.5%
8	Refused to answer	14	1.2%
9	Don’t Know	120	10%
95	Other	26	2.2%
460	No specific type/all	85	7.1%
461	Old people	55	4.6%

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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